Seizing Life

CURE Epilepsy
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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. 3 SEPT.

    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

  2. 6 AOÛT

    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

  3. 2 JUIL.

    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

  4. 4 JUIN

    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

  5. 7 MAI

    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

  6. 2 AVR.

    Music Therapy for Neurologic Conditions: Understanding How It Works

    Dr. Connie Tomaino, music therapist and co-founder of the Institute for Music and Neurologic Function, discusses how music therapy is used to treat neurologic conditions and explains what we know about the power of music to heal the brain.

    25 min

  7. 5 MARS

    Despite Medical Training, A Young Doctor’s Epilepsy Goes Undiagnosed for a Decade

    This month on Seizing Life® Dr. Kelly Tyson shares her decade-long journey to an epilepsy diagnosis. Despite numerous visits to various medical experts through the years and majoring in neuroscience in college, Kelly was never referred to a neurologist, nor did she recognize the “episodes” she experienced as seizures. Kelly details how she managed these episodes through college, graduate school, and medical school, and reveals the surprising way that she came to realize she was having seizures.

    34 min

  8. 5 FÉVR.

    Joey’s Song Musicians: Rocking for Epilepsy Research is Personal

    This month Seizing Life® goes on location at the Joey’s Song Freezing Man Festival to speak with Kay Hanley and John Cowsill, two musicians with personal connections to epilepsy who participated in the multiday music festival to raise money for epilepsy research.

    48 min
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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.

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  • Création
    CURE Epilepsy
  • Années d’activité
    2019 - 2025
  • Épisodes
    151
  • Classification
    Tous publics
  • Copyright
    © 2024 CURE Epilepsy
  • Site web de l’émission
    Seizing Life

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