What is epilepsy?
Seizures
- The structure of the brain
- Why seizures happen
- When seizures start
- Seizure classification
- Seizure types
- Focal (partial) seizures
- Focal (partial) seizures in the temporal lobes
- Focal (partial) seizures in the frontal lobes
- Jacksonian seizures
- Todd’s paralysis or Todd’s paresis
- Focal (partial) seizures in the parietal lobes
- Focal (partial) seizures in the occipital lobes
- Focal (partial) seizures progressing to generalised seizures
- Generalised seizures
- Status epilepticus
- First aid for seizures
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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
Stress
Memory
Employment
- Introduction to epilepsy and working in the UK
- Looking for work
- Epilepsy in the workplace
- Seizures in the workplace - advice for employers
- Transport to work
- Sources of further advice and information
First aid
- First aid
- Tonic-clonic seizures
- Seizures involving altered consciousness or behaviour
- Status epilepticus
Safety
- Safety
- Caring for young children (for parents with epilepsy) : a quick guide
- Epilepsy and caring for children: a comprehensive guide
Benefits information for people with epilepsy
Possible entitlements for people with epilepsy in England
Possible entitlements for people with epilepsy in Wales
Possible entitlements for people with epilepsy in Scotland
- Free prescriptions
- The Disabled Persons Railcard
- Free bus fares - adults
- Free bus fares - children
- Access to work
- Welfare benefits
Possible entitlements for people with epilepsy in Northern Ireland
Drugwatch
Diagnosis
- Getting a diagnosis
- Diffusion Tensor Imaging (DTI)
- Electroencephalogram (EEG)
- Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI)
The UK Equality Act
Depression
Relationships
Driving
- Driving
- UK driving regulations
- Applying for a driving licence for the first time
- Why you should stop driving when you have had a seizure
- Driving for a living
Facts and figures
Women
- Your periods (the menstrual cycle)
- Sex life
- Contraception
- Bone health
- The menopause
- Hormone replacement therapy (HRT)
- Sources of further advice and information for women
- Epilepsy and having a baby
- Epilepsy Mine
Sudden unexpected death in epilepsy (SUDEP)
Education
Travel
Alcohol
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 epilepsy 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
- Ohtahara syndrome
- Panayiotopoulous syndrome
- Pyridoxine responsive epilepsy
- 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
Sport and leisure
- Sport and leisure activities and epilepsy
- Telling people about your epilepsy
- Talking to your doctor
- Swimming
- Beauty treatments
Children
- Childhood syndromes
- Epilepsy in newborn babies
- Epilepsy and caring for children
- Kids' section
- Parents' guide
- 'Me and my dad' – a story to help parents explain their epilepsy
- Learning and behaviour
Older people
Inheriting epilepsy
Photosensitive epilepsy
- Introduction
- About photosensitive epilepsy
- About hertz (Hz)
- Diagnosing photosensitive epilepsy
- Ways to reduce the risk of seizures if you have photosensitive epilepsy
- Some possible seizure triggers for people with photosensitive epilepsy
- Computer and television screens
- Useful information and contacts