Epilepsy and Seizures

Epilepsy is a chronic illness where the nerves in brain send too many uncontrolled signals. These signals result in a seizure, where the person has a change in consciousness, and may have changes in movement, feeling, or reflexes.

Topics included in children and epilepsy are:

• absence epilepsy or staring seizures
• complex partial seizures
• frontal lobe epilepsy
• infantile spasms
• ketogenic diets
• hormones and epilepsy
• mental health disorders and epilepsy
• neonatal seizures
• post traumatic seizures
• pregnancy and epilepsy
• pseudoseizures
• sexuality and epilepsy
• sleep and epilepsy
• temporal lobe epilepsy
• video games, computer games, and seizures

Webinar with Dr. Jeffrey Buchhalter and Author, Paulette George

A Parent's and Physician's Perspective - Options for Seizure Disorder Treatment in Children

Webinar Presentation Slides