Epilepsy Institute Categories: Features

In this Research Blog, Caoimhe Twohig-Bennett provides an update on the incredible research made possible by your support.

In this Research Blog, Anna Norton shares what’s next for our UK Epilepsy Priority Setting Partnership (PSP)

In this Research Blog, Professor Helen Cross will explain how important the WHO IGAP will be for people affected by epilepsy and for epilepsy research globally.

On the Research Blog later this week, Angie will be sharing the importance of the updated NICE guidelines, and how they will improve the quality of care and services and inform future research into epilepsy.

This month, we’ll be looking at new initiatives with the potential to make a lasting difference for people with epilepsy.

In this blog, Professor Richard Baines discusses the drug development process – from the first discoveries in the lab, right through to developing new drugs and into clinical trials.

Sophie, 21, took part in Dr Antonio Valentin’s study, funded by Epilepsy Research UK, to investigate if electrical brain stimulation can be used to treat drug-resistant epilepsy. She has now been seizure-free for six years.

This month, we’re looking at research into innovative epilepsy treatments which could help more people live seizure-free.

In this Research Roundtable webinar, our fantastic blog contributors from the month, Faustine, Professor Arjune Sen and Professor Amanda Wood, discussed the impact memory loss can have on people living with epilepsy and how research

Professor Amanda Wood researchers memory loss in children. Alongside Professor Stefano Seri and Dr Elaine Foley, Professor Wood was awarded funding from Epilepsy Research UK in 2015 for a project aiming to better predict how