A-Z of epilepsy topics
A
- Alarms
- Alcohol
- Anti-epileptic drugs
- Anxiety
- Appeals (benefits)
- Appointments - with your doctor or nurse
B
- Benefit decisions and appeals
- Benefit forms (completing)
- Benefits (welfare)
- The brain
- Branded and generic anti-epileptic drugs (AEDs)
- Buccal midazolam (emergency medication)
C
- Cannabis oil for epilepsy
- Car insurance
- Care pathway
- Carers
- Causes of epilepsy
- Childhood epilepsy syndromes
- Children
- Complementary therapies
- Contraception
D
- Deep brain stimulation (DBS) therapy
- Dental injuries
- Depression and low mood
- Diagnosis
- Diazepam (emergency medication)
- Diet and nutrition
- Discretionary housing payments
- Driving regulations
- Drug wallets and medication aids
- Drugs (recreational)
E
- Education (for parents and teachers)
- EEG (electroencephalogram)
- Epilepsy care pathway
- Epilepsy - what is it?
- Emergency medication
- Employment
- ESA (Employment and Support Allowance)
- Exercise
F
- Facts about epilepsy
- First aid for seizures
- Flashing lights (photosensitive epilepsy)
- Free prescriptions
G
H
I
- ID cards and medical jewellery
- Insurance (see car insurance or travel insurance)
J
K
L
M
- Medical jewellery and ID cards
- Medication aids
- Medication
- Membership
- Memory
- Menopause
- Midazolam (emergency medication)
- Monitoring epilepsy
- Mood and epilepsy
- MRI: the MRI test
N
P
- PIP (Personal Independence Payment) - making a claim
- PIP (Personal Independence Payment) - the assessment criteria
- Personal safety
- Pharmacist services
- Photosensitive epilepsy
- Pregnancy and parenting
- Protective headgear
R
- Reading list
- Recording seizures
- Recovery position: step-by-step
- Recreational drugs
- Rectal diazepam (emergency medication)
- Relationships and sex
- Review (medical review of epilepsy)
- Risk
S
- Safety
- Safety aids and alarms
- Safety and risk templates
- School
- Schools awareness training
- Seizure alarms
- Seizure diaries
- Seizures
- Seizures - what to record
- Sex and relationships
- Side effects of medication
- Sleep
- Sodium valproate
- Sport and exercise
- Status epilepticus
- SUDEP (Sudden unexpected death in epilepsy)
- Surgery
- Syndromes
T
- Teaching children with epilepsy
- Teenagers and young people
- TDM (therapeutic drug monitoring)
- Treatment
- Travel
- Travel insurance
- Triggers for seizures