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Latest Episodes

One Woman’s Epilepsy Journey Through Childhood, Parenting, Discrimination, and Surgery
April 03, 2024

This month on Seizing Life author Laura Beretsky shares her decades-long journey with epilepsy chronicled in her recent memoir Seizing Control.

A Nurse’s Knowledge & A Mother’s Love Leads to Son’s Life-Changing Brain Surgery
March 06, 2024

A mother uses her nursing knowledge to advocate for her sons epilepsy care and surgery.

Artificial Intelligence and Epilepsy: The Promise & Pitfalls of AI in Diagnosis and Treatment
February 07, 2024

Dr. Daniel Goldenholz of Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center discusses the current and potential impacts of artificial intelligence on epilepsy care.

Best of Seizing Life 2023
January 03, 2024

This week on Seizing Life, we revisit several compelling conversations from the past year in our Best of Seizing Life 2023 compilation episode.

Rare Epilepsy Organizations: Fostering Community and Advancing Research
December 27, 2023

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.

Regenerative Brain Cell Therapy: One Woman’s Journey to Seizure Freedom
December 13, 2023

This week on Seizing Life Annette Adkins discusses the impacts of intractable epilepsy on her life, and how it led her to a regenerative brain cell clinical trial that has brought her a year of seizu

Infantile Spasms: The Facts, The Research, and The Hope for the Future
November 29, 2023

This week on Seizing Life epilepsy researcher Dr. Chris Dulla provides information about infantile spasms, from detection and diagnosis to current research and future improvements in treatment.

Epilepsy in Women: Challenges, Concerns, and Considerations
November 15, 2023

This week on Seizing Life Dr. Elizabeth Gerard discusses concerns specific to women living with epilepsy. From puberty to menstruation, contraception, pregnancy, and menopause, we explore managing ep

NYC Marathoner Achieves Seizure Control and Runs for Epilepsy Research
November 01, 2023

This week on Seizing Life Peter Burpee shares his experiences with absence and tonic clonic seizures and explains why hes running for Team CURE Epilepsy in the upcoming NYC Marathon.

Searching for Answers, Providing Support, and Understanding Grief After the Death of a Child
October 18, 2023

This week on Seizing Life Dr. Richard Goldstein, Associate Professor of Pediatrics at Harvard Medical School, discusses his research into both Sudden Unexpected Death in Pediatrics (SUDP) and the gri