Seizing Life

By CURE Epilepsy

Seizing Life® is a CURE Epilepsy podcast and videocast aiming to inspire empathy, offer helpful stories, and give hope as we search for a cure for epilepsy. Listen as guests share stories and insights... more

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How many episodes does Seizing Life have?

The podcast currently has 193 episodes available.

Seizing Life episodes:

July 03, 2024 The NORSE Institute: A Mother’s Loss Drives Awareness and Research into a Devastating Form of Epilepsy
After losing her son to a rare form of epilepsy called NORSE, or New Onset Refractory Status Epilepticus, Nora Wong set out to get answers from doctors and researchers. When she found little information and more questions, she founded the NORSE Institute to raise awareness and fund research into this sudden and devastating form of epilepsy.
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35min
June 05, 2024 The Sudden and Life-Altering Impact of Adult-Onset Epilepsy
This month on Seizing Life® Jon Tuteur shares his journey with adult-onset epilepsy. From his first seizure at age thirty, through his epilepsy diagnosis, treatment, and eventual brain surgery, Jon discuses the physical and emotional impacts of seizures, medications, diagnostic tests, and medical procedures in pursuit of controlling his epilepsy. He also tells us about his forthcoming book Seizing Today: Discovering Purpose and Authenticity in a Life Changing Diagnosis
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35min
May 01, 2024 Older Adults and Epilepsy: the Causes, the Signs, and the Treatments
This week on Seizing Life® Dr. Laura O’Dwyer joins us to talk about the fastest growing segment of people living with epilepsy in the United States – older adults. Dr. O’Dwyer explains why adults are more likely to develop epilepsy later in life, outlines the challenges of recognizing, diagnosing, and treating epilepsy in older adults, and provides valuable information for older adults living with epilepsy and their caregivers.
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29min
April 03, 2024 One Woman’s Epilepsy Journey Through Childhood, Parenting, Discrimination, and Surgery
This month on Seizing Life® author Laura Beretsky shares her decades-long journey with epilepsy, from diagnosis at age 6, through college, parenting, fighting discrimination in the workplace, and ultimately seizing control of her epilepsy via life-changing surgery.
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37min
March 06, 2024 A Nurse’s Knowledge & A Mother’s Love Leads to Son’s Life-Changing Brain Surgery
This month on Seizing Life® a nurse and mother shares her young son’s journey from the onset of focal seizures to a devastating diagnosis of Rasmussen’s Encephalitis to a life-changing brain surgery.
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35min
February 07, 2024 Artificial Intelligence and Epilepsy: The Promise & Pitfalls of AI in Diagnosis and Treatment
This month on Seizing Life® we explore artificial intelligence as it relates to epilepsy care, how it’s impacting epilepsy diagnosis and treatment today, and what it promises for the future.
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38min
January 03, 2024 The Best of Seizing Life 2023
This week on Seizing Life®, we revisit several compelling conversations from the past year in our Best of Seizing Life 2023 compilation episode.
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31min
January 03, 2024 Best of Seizing Life 2023
This week on Seizing Life®, we revisit several compelling conversations from the past year in our Best of Seizing Life 2023 compilation episode.
The post Best of Seizing Life 2023 appeared first on CURE Epilepsy.
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31min
December 27, 2023 Rare Epilepsy Organizations: Fostering Community and Advancing Research
This week on Seizing Life® we speak with two rare epilepsy organizations, The KCNT1 Epilepsy Foundation and The Cute Syndrome Foundation, about community, awareness, and advancing research.
The post Rare Epilepsy Organizations: Fostering Community and Advancing Research appeared first on CURE Epilepsy.
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21min
December 13, 2023 Regenerative Brain Cell Therapy: One Woman’s Journey to Seizure Freedom
This week on Seizing Life® Annette Adkins, who has lived with intractable epilepsy since 2014, discusses the impacts of epilepsy on her professional and personal life, and how it led her to participate in a clinical trial for a new procedure that has brought her seizure freedom.
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27min

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How many episodes does Seizing Life have?

The podcast currently has 193 episodes available.

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