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Epilepsy Action Research Grants Programme 2007-2008

Research grants

Professor Ann Jacoby

  • University of Liverpool
  • The role of resilience for good quality of life in epilepsy and factors promoting such resilience. 
  • £69,052 – 24 months
  • Completed
  • Plain English summary

Professor Matthew Lambon-Ralph

  • University of Manchester
  • Is there a semantic impairment following resection in temporal lobe epilepsy?
    £15,000 – 6 months
  • Completed
  • Plain English summary

Dr Markus Reuber

  • University of Sheffield
  • Conversational displays of coping resources in clinical encounters between patients with epilepsy and neurologists: a pilot study.
  • £15,000 – 6 months
  • Completed
  • Plain English summary  

Postgraduate research bursaries

Graham Powell

  • University of Liverpool
  • What factors effect the reporting of adverse effects of anti-epileptic medication in a population attending an epilepsy service?
  • £1,500 

Sarah Todd

  • University of Derby
  • Adolescents’ perceptions of communicating and interacting with health professionals and their satisfaction with their experiences.
  • £1,500

Valerie Featherstone

  • University of Hull
  • What is the nature of the language used by people who are experiencing seizures to describe both epileptic and non-epileptic seizures, and does this correlate positively with differential diagnosis?
  • £1,500

Epilepsy Action Research Prizes

Dr Christopher Butler

  • University of Edinburgh
  • The Syndrome of Transient Epileptic Amnesia
  • £500
  • View the abstract

Dr Antonio Valentin

  • King’s College Hospital, London
  • Single pulse electrical stimulation (SPES) identifies structural abnormalities and predicts seizure outcome after epilepsy surgery
  • £500
  • View the abstract 

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