Award winning children’s author & illustrator R.W. Alley, has been illustrating Michael Bond’s beloved Paddington Bear books since 1997, and this is your opportunity to learn how to draw your very own ...

Who gets infantile epileptic spasms syndrome? About 1 in 3,000 children develop IESS. It usually begins in the first year of life, mainly between the ages of four and eight months. A cause will be ...

The ketogenic diet, or ketogenic diet therapy, is sometimes used as a treatment for epilepsy. For some children and adults, the ketogenic diet helps to control their seizures. There are different ...

Dravet syndrome is a rare epilepsy syndrome. It affects around 1 in 15,000 children in the UK. It usually starts in the first year of life, often around six months. Babies usually show normal ...

Who gets Sturge-Weber syndrome? Sturge-Weber syndrome is rare. It’s thought to affect between 2 and 5 in 100,000 children. The condition is something you’re born with and is caused by a change (called ...

We know that for some people with epilepsy, cannabis-based medicines can be effective in controlling seizures. We are campaigning for more research into cannabis-based medicines as well as for more ...

Who gets juvenile absence epilepsy? Around 2 to 3 in 100 children with epilepsy that starts in childhood or adolescence have JAE. It usually starts between the ages of 9 and 13, but it may start ...

Many people with epilepsy use complementary therapies to reduce stress. Some people find that these therapies also improve their general health and wellbeing. This information looks at some of the ...

Sodium valproate is a medicine used to treat epilepsy. For some people it might be the most effective epilepsy medicine. However, sodium valproate carries a higher risk than other anti-seizure ...

If you have epilepsy and live in Scotland, your diagnosis and treatment will follow SIGN guidelines. You should have access to specialist services just like the rest of the UK. On this page we explain ...

All professional members receive the digital magazines Epilepsy Professional and Paediatric Epilepsy Current Awareness Service (PECAS), as well as online access to Seizure – the European Journal of ...

We’re glad you found our page! At Exeter Epilepsy Social, we have one thing in common – a connection to epilepsy! It may be we have epilepsy, we’re married to someone with epilepsy, or we have a ...