Alcohol and recreational drugs

• Alcohol and recreational drugs

Benefits

• Benefits – welfare benefits and entitlements

Children

• Childhood syndromes

• Epilepsy in newborn babies

• Kids' section

• Parents' guide

• 'Me and my dad' – a story to help parents explain their epilepsy

• Learning and behaviour

Complementary treatments

• Complementary treatments overview

• The Mozart Effect

• Evening primrose oil

• St John’s Wort

Depression

• Depression

Diagnosis

• Getting a diagnosis

• Diffusion Tensor Imaging (DTI)

• Electroencephalogram (EEG)

• Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI)

Disability Discrimination Act

• Disability Discrimination Act

• Disability Discrimination Act and insurance

Driving

• Driving in England, Scotland and Wales

• Driving in Northern Ireland

Education

• Education – parent’s guide

• Teacher’s guide

• Higher education

• Epilepsy awareness project for primary schools

• Epilepsy policy for schools

• Exams

Employment

• Employment for people with epilepsy

• Employing people with epilepsy

Facts and figures

• Facts and figures

First aid

• First aid

• Tonic-clonic seizures

• Seizures involving altered consciousness or behaviour

• Status epilepticus

Inheriting epilepsy

• Inheriting epilepsy

Languages – information in other languages

• Bengali

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• Gujarati

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• Punjabi

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• Turkish

• Urdu

• Language line

Learning disabilities

• Learning disabilities

Memory

• Memory

Men

• Men and epilepsy

• Coming to terms with epilepsy

• Visiting your doctor

• Sexuality

• Starting a family

• Contacting other men with epilepsy

Mobile phones

• Mobile phones

Older people

• Older people

Photosensitive epilepsy

• Introduction

• Television

• Computers

• Videogames

• Other possible triggers

• Useful contacts

• Web design

Relationships

• Relationships

Safety

• Safety

• Caring for young children (for parents with epilepsy)

Seizures

• Seizures explained
• Describing seizure types
• Partial seizures
  • Temporal lobe seizures
  • Frontal lobe seizures
  • Parietal lobe seizures
  • Occipital lobe seizures
• Generalised seizures
  • Absence seizures
  • Atonic seizures
  • Myoclonic seizures
  • Tonic seizures
  • Tonic-clonic seizures
• First aid for seizures
• Auras and warnings
• Febrile convulsions
• Keeping a seizure diary
• Non-epileptic attack disorder
• Sleep and seizures
• Triggers

Sport and leisure

• Beauty treatments

• Leisure

• Swimming

Stress

• Stress

• Exams

Sudden unexpected death in epilepsy (SUDEP)

• Sudden unexpected death in epilepsy (SUDEP)

Syndromes

• Introduction to syndromes

• Aicardi syndrome

• Angelman syndrome

• Baltic myoclonus

• BECOP (Benign epilepsy of childhood with occipital paroxysms)

• Benign myoclonic epilepsy in infancy

• Benign partial epilepsy in infancy

• Benign rolandic epilepsy

• Childhood absence epilepsy

• Early myoclonic encephalopathy

• Epilepsy with myoclonic absences

• ESESS (Electrical status epilepticus during slow-wave sleep)

• GEFS+ (Generalised epilespy with febrile seizures plus)

• Gelastic epilepsy

• Infantile spasms

• Janz syndrome

• Juvenile myoclonic epilepsy

• Landau Kleffner syndrome

• Lennox-Gastaut syndrome

• Migrating partial epilepsy

• Myoclonic astatic epilepsy

• Otahara syndrome

• Panayiotopoulous syndrome

• Ramsay Hunt syndrome

• Rasmussen syndrome

• Rett syndrome

• Ring 20 syndrome

• SMEI (Severe myoclonic epilepsy in infancy)

• Sturge-Weber syndrome

• Unverricht-Lundborg syndrome

• West’s syndrome

• Pyridoxine responsive epilepsy

Teenagers and young people

• Teenagers' and young people's section

• Upfront info pack

• Dear Debbie and Dear Danny

• In focus photography exhibition

• Exams

Travel

• Travel abroad

• Disabled persons railcard

• Bus travel in England, Scotland and Wales

Treatment

• Anti-epileptic drug treatment

• Visiting your doctor

• Keeping a diary

• UK anti-epileptic drug list

• Why do my drugs look different?

• The Ketogenic diet

• Vagus Nerve Stimulation

• Surgery

• NICE guidelines

What is epilepsy?

• Frequently asked questions

Women

• Women

• Hormones

• Periods (the menstrual cycle)

• Contraception

• Fertility

• Planning a baby

  • Anti-epileptic drugs and pregnancy

  • once you are pregnant

  • giving birth

  • breastfeeding
    

• Caring for a baby or young child

• Epilepsy Mine

Information in other formats

Epilepsy Action shop - buy epilepsy books, videos and information leaflets

Toolkit for epilepsy - A Resource for General Practioners