Epilepsy

We hope that you find the information on this page helpful and interesting. The focus here is on epilepsy, a problem that affects many of our patients. The International League Against Epilepsy (ILAE) is an important source of information about epilepsy, diagnosis and treatment. Also, if you’re a healthcare professional, you’ll find important technical information in the online diagnostic manual EpilepsyDiagnosis, brought to you by the ILAE. First, though, browse through the articles below.

Cannabis, epilepsy and childhood Dravet syndrome

Finally, some decent quality research has been done into the use of cannabis to control epileptic seizures.  A paper published…

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Amazingly, Dissociative Seizures Are not Really Epilepsy

Dissociative Seizures We have been seeing an increasing number of patients with dissociative seizures at Ormond Neuroscience.  Alternatively, perhaps I…

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