We offer the below two courses face-to-face, or online. All delegates receive a certificate of attendance. We recommend that this training takes place every two years. 6-hour course providing ...

We are Epilepsy Society. The UK’s only charity transforming the lives of people with epilepsy through world-leading research, advocacy and care. We are the leading charity care provider, where people ...

Anyone can have difficulty remembering information. Keeping your brain alert and active is a good thing but, on its own, it may not necessarily improve memory. Memory aids may help you to cope with ...

Different epilepsies are due to many different underlying causes. The causes can be complex, and sometimes hard to identify. A person might start having seizures because they have one or more of the ...

A syndrome is a group of signs or symptoms that happen together and help to identify a unique medical condition. Epilepsy syndromes are usually diagnosed in childhood but some can continue into adult ...

Most people with a diagnosis of epilepsy will take anti-seizure medication (ASM) to stop their seizures from happening. Although generally epilepsy cannot be ‘cured’, for most people, seizures can be ...

Diagnosing epilepsy is not simple. Doctors gather lots of different information to assess the causes of seizures. If you have had two or more seizures that started in the brain you may be diagnosed ...

The ketogenic diet may help reduce seizures and have other positive effects. Dietary treatments for epilepsy are specialised, and need to be supervised by trained medical specialists. What is the ...

We are the leading charity care provider, where people love to work and live. Our wide range of care is tailored to the needs of each individual, and our professional staff are committed to maximising ...

Memory is the brain’s ability to store information and find it again later. Chemical and electrical changes happen in the brain when new memories are made. This is information stored over a long time.

"It's very important that the clinical knowledge and the understanding of people with epilepsy drives research as this allows us always to have the person at the centre." Ley Sander is Professor of ...