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Do you remember the time?

Transient epileptic amnesia: the TIME project

Epilepsy researcher, Adam Zeman, explores a newly discovered syndrome of epilepsy. Called transient epileptic amnesia, the syndrome may help explain why some people with epilepsy struggle with memory

Memory complaints are common among patients with epilepsy.They have several potential explanations.These include the seizures themselves, the underlying brain pathologies in patients with focal epilepsy and the effects of epilepsy surgery. Memory problems can also arise from secondary psychological consequences of epilepsy – including  depression and anxiety – and the side-effects of anticonvulsant drugs. As a rule, however, the seizures that give rise to a diagnosis of epilepsy do not primarily result in a disturbance of memory.

Epilepsy: an emotive issue

Seizures and emotions and the links between them

Cambridge neuropsychiatrist, Howard A Ring, outlines the relationship between epilepsy and emotion – as a result of electrical activity, medication sideeffects and social impact

Service Development Directive for Epilepsy

A political imperative to change epilepsy care?

Professor Mike Kerr offers his opinion of the new Service Development Directive for Epilepsy – a document hoping to improve epilepsy services across Wales

And much more in the June 2009 issue of Epilepsy Professional

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