Epilepsy Sparks Insights

By Torie RobinsonScience Medicine Health & Fitness Life Sciences

Epilepsy Sparks Insights episodes

June 13, 2024 Understanding & Treating Autoimmune-Associated Epilepsy - Claude Steriade
Hear about Autoimmune-Associated Epilepsy and the intersection between epilepsy and immunology - in part 1 of 2 with epileptologist Claude Steriade from NYU Langone Health Epilepsy Center! Claude explains the causes, mechanisms, and impacts of Autoimmune-Associated Epilepsy upon people's lives, plus, how crucial early diagnoses and intervention are.
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#autoimmune #autoimmuneepilepsy #neurology #immunology
17 min
June 06, 2024 Huge Advances In EEG Monitoring & Analysis - Mark Cook
Mark Cook and Torie discuss the significant improvements in epilepsy treatments over the past few decades - thanks to technologies like MRI and genetics. Mark also explores the issue of overreporting and underreporting of seizures by patients and the potential of ambulatory EEG monitoring and big data analysis to provide a more accurate understanding of seizure activity which can lead to both improved treatments and improving peoples’ quality of life.
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#epilepsy #medtech #EEG #ambulatoryEEG
25 min
May 30, 2024 Exploring The Links Between Sleep & Epilepsy: CASTLE - Deb Pal & Paul Gringras
Deb Pal and Paul Gringras discuss their research on the links between sleep and seizures in epilepsy; sharing their work on the CASTLE project, which aims to improve sleep and Quality of Life for children, young people, and families affected. They discuss both their app called COSI - which provides evidence-based sleep interventions for parents, and the upcoming CASTLE conference, where they shall disseminate their research findings and discuss the importance of personalised approaches to sleep management in epilepsy.
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#sleep #epilepsy #epilepsyresearch #CASTLE #COZY
17 min
May 23, 2024 Epilepsy: Managing Your Metabolism To Stabilise Your Brain - Graham Phillips
What should someone do if interested in adopting the ketogenic diet or looking further into "metabolic psychiatry"? Hear about sacrifices, benefits, weight loss, constipation, nutrition, and having the right support. All in part 3 of 3 with the “pharmacist who gave up drugs”, Graham Phillips.
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#epilepsy #keto #ketogenic #metabolichealth #weightloss
18 min
May 16, 2024 Epilepsy, Mood, Metabolism, And The Ketogenic Diet! - Graham Phillips
Learn of the evolution of the ketogenic diet, metabolic psychiatry, the treatment overlap between different diagnoses (e.g. the epilepsies and mood disorders), recommended reads, and the cognitive dissonance of many regarding the ketogenic diet. This is part 2 of 3 with the Pharmacist Who Gave Up Drugs: Graham Phillips.
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#epilepsy #keto #ketogenic #metabolichealth #weightloss
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21 min
May 09, 2024 The Ketogenic Diet - Graham Phillips
The Pharmacist Who Gave Up Drugs introduces us to the impacts of the western diet on our health, quality of life, life expectancy - and the potential benefits of the ketogenic diet - in part 1 of 3: Graham Phillips.
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#epilepsy #keto #ketogenic
22 min
May 02, 2024 Pediatric Epilepsy Research Consortium - M. Scott Perry
M. Scott Perry explains how Epilepsy Researchers require intros and support to be the best that they can be and initiate, manage, and see results. It’s possible through the Pediatric Epilepsy Research Consortium (PERC).
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#epilepsy #pediatricepilepsy #scottperry #PERC #epilepsyresearch
14 min
April 25, 2024 Preventing Seizures Using Stem Cells?! - David Spencer
Hear about research into a new way of inhibiting temporal lobe seizure activity through GABAergic interneuron cell therapy! With epileptologist and neuroscientist David Spencer.
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#epilepsy #DavidSpencer #stemcell #interneuron #GABA
15 min
April 18, 2024 Mistaking Epilepsy For Menopause?! - Jacqueline French
It's wild: when clinicians mistake an epilepsy (caused by a brain tumour!) for menopause! Or, when a parent doesn't believe that their daughter could have an epilepsy...! Why aren't organisations and governments promoting epilepsy awareness as well as they do stroke and MS?! Tune in to hear all about it from leading epilepsy specialist: Jacqueline French.
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#epilepsy #epilepsyresearch #JacquelineFrench #humanepilepsyproject #EpilepsyStudyConsortium
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April 17, 2024 6th Dianalund International Conference on Epilepsy - Overlapping Clinical Phenotypes in Monogenic Epilepsies; Common Molecular Pathways? - Elena Gardella, Rikke Møller, Guido Rubboli
Hear about the one-of-a-kind 6th Dianalund International Conference on Epilepsy in May 2024 - with lead genetic clinicians and researchers Elena Gardella, Rikke Møller, and Guido Rubboli.
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#epilepsy #epilepsygenetics #monogenic #phenotypes #filadelfia #danishepilepsycenter #DICE
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Sparking interest and understanding in the epilepsies whilst bridging the communication gap between epilepsy patients, clinicians, scientists, geneticists – and the world. Hosted by Torie Robinson.