Each year from May 20-26, the United States of America celebrates National Epilepsy Awareness Week. While this year, current events kept the celebration virtual and a bit subdued, we still went all out raising Epilepsy Awareness on our Twitter feed. For those of you that missed it, we wanted to Read more…
If you’ve always wondered: “Why doesn’t my doctor listen to me?”, “Why does my doctor push medication on me?” or “Why is my doctor so terrible?” then this episode is for you. The host of our podcast, David Clifford, covers the relationship between epilepsy patients and neurologists using vital statistics Read more…
Last episode, we covered the things that things people do that annoy the members of the Epilepsy community. In this episode, our host of the Brain Ablaze Epilepsy Podcast, David Clifford, changes things up to explain the different side of the same story by walking through some of the things Read more…
In this episode, we walk through some of the faux pas that members of the general public often make that often cause confusion or even playful eye-rolls from members of the Epilepsy community. This episode was inspired by the #seizurechallenge, a recent Tik Tok trend that has people (mostly teens) Read more…
If you haven’t heard of the #SeizureChallenge it is a Tik Tok fad that has people (mostly teens) uploading videos that include mock performances of convulsive seizures. The Epilepsy community is not offended by videos about seizures. We know seizures. We live with them every day. Instead, we are offended Read more…
In this episode (player link at bottom), I walk through the concepts of Adult Neurogenesis and Neuroplasticity, why they are important to the people of Epilepsy, and how they can be used now to help with your recovery. Gaining neuroplasticity means pushing your brain in ways that it wouldn’t normally Read more…