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Grant round winners 2011 Status epilepticus can be either convulsive (CSE) or non-convulsive (NCSE) and is defined as a seizure lasting 30 minutes or more, or a series of seizures that occur in success [...]

Grant round winners 2011 Juvenile myoclonic epilepsy (JME) is a common form of generalised epilepsy, which usually presents between the ages of 12 and 18 years and is characterised by myoclonus (involu [...]

Grant awarded in 2011 Rolandic epilepsy (RE) is one of the most common paediatric epilepsy syndromes, affecting approximately 10,000 children in the UK, usually between the ages of 3 and 13. Those affe [...]

Grant round winners 2011 Approximately two thirds of people who have epilepsy successfully control their seizures with anti-epileptic drugs (AEDs); however AEDs can sometimes have unpleasant side-effec [...]

Grant round winners 2011 When epilepsy develops in childhood, it often leads to learning and behavioural problems, particularly when seizures continue for a number of years. Approximately one-third of [...]

Grant round winners 2011 Epileptic disorders can be described as focal (meaning that seizures originate in a specific part of the brain) or generalised (meaning that seizures involve most or all of the [...]

Grant round winners 2010 Absence epilepsy is a common epilepsy syndrome, which usually develops between the ages of four and nine years of age. Seizures can occur between 20 and several hundred times p [...]

Grant round winners 2010 Understanding exactly how seizures begin is important for two reasons: firstly, so that a warning system can be developed to alert people with active epilepsy (in good time) wh [...]

Grant round winners 2010 Approximately five percent of people with epilepsy have photosensitive epilepsy, where flashing lights or other visual stimuli can trigger seizures. The precise mechanism for p [...]

Grant round winners 2010 In refractory epilepsy (RE), seizures are unresponsive to anti-epileptic drug treatment and this is the case for approximately a third of people with epilepsy. RE is notoriousl [...]

Grant round winners 2010 Anti-epileptic drugs (AEDs) need to pass from the blood into the brain in order to protect against seizures. However, unlike many other organs, the brain is protected against c [...]

Grant round winners 2010 A large proportion of people with epilepsy experience memory problems, but the reasons for this are still poorly understood. One possibility is that it is due to a type of impa [...]