Seizing Life

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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 on living with epilepsy in conversation with our host, Kelly Cervantes.

  1. 03/12/2025

    Epilepsy for Dummies: Your New Handbook for Better Understanding Epilepsy

    Journalist Lauren Aguirre and Dr. Elizabeth Thiele, the authors of the recently published “Epilepsy for Dummies,” discuss their collaboration and explain why their perspectives as epilepsy patient/parent and provider were essential in creating a reliable resource for those living with epilepsy and those who love them.

    30 min

  2. 05/11/2025

    A Mother and Neurologist Shares Her Son’s Amazing Journey From Traumatic Birth to Seizure Freedom

    Dr. Kendra Cagniart shares her son’s journey with epilepsy, from a traumatic birth in which he arrived in status epilepticus through his current period of seizure freedom at the age of 9. This is an amazing and ultimately hopeful journey of a young boy living with epilepsy.

    41 min

  3. 01/10/2025

    Turning the Tragedy of SUDEP into Hope: The Story of the Joanna Sophia Foundation

    In honor of SUDEP Action Day on Wednesday, October 15th, we speak with Maria Teresa Ioannou of the Joanna Sophia Foundation who tragically lost her nine-year-old daughter Joanna Sophia to SUDEP in 2018.

  4. 03/09/2025

    On the Brink of Breakthrough: How an Arthritis Med Could Stop Seizures

    Dr. Olivia Hoffman, post-doctoral researcher in Dr. Avtar Roopra’s lab at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, discusses one of the most exciting discoveries in epilepsy research in recent years, a repurposed drug that has shown remarkable promise in eliminating seizures and restoring cognition in mice.

    55 min

  5. 06/08/2025

    A Family’s Journey with Panayiotopoulos Syndrome

    This week on Seizing Life®, journalist, television executive, and mother Scarlette Whyte joins us to share her family’s experience with Panayiotopoulos Syndrome, a type of early childhood epilepsy with which two of her three children have been diagnosed.

    36 min

  6. 02/07/2025

    10 Years of Ella’s Race: Raising Awareness & Finding Hope in Fundraising for Epilepsy Research

    Longtime CURE Epilepsy Champion and current board member Shalee Cunneen comes back to the podcast to share her family’s journey with epilepsy and fundraising efforts for a new CURE Epilepsy research initiative.

    38 min

  7. 04/06/2025

    Advocating for a National Plan for Epilepsy in Uncertain Times

    Dr. Dan Lowenstein discusses the current efforts to push Congress to adopt a National Plan for Epilepsy, explaining who is behind it, what it is, and what it could mean to the epilepsy community.

    46 min

  8. 07/05/2025

    Using Basketball to Fight Stigma and Empower Kids Living with Epilepsy

    Mike Simmel shares his epilepsy journey, explains how his passion for basketball helped him navigate the impacts of epilepsy, and recounts how a personal experience with epilepsy stigma inspired him to help kids with epilepsy and other challenges.

    31 min
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About

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 on living with epilepsy in conversation with our host, Kelly Cervantes.

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  • Creator
    CURE Epilepsy
  • Years Active
    2019 - 2025
  • Episodes
    154
  • Rating
    Clean
  • Copyright
    © 2024 CURE Epilepsy
  • Show Website
    Seizing Life

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