Episodes

  • A Trailblazing Career in Epilepsy and Clinical Trials

    A Trailblazing Career in Epilepsy and Clinical Trials
    Jan 7 2026
    Dr. Elinor Ben-Menachem, epileptologist, researcher and professor at Sweden’s University of Gothenburg, shares insights and experiences from her 40-plus years working with clinical trials and providing care to refractory epilepsy patients.
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    29 mins
  • Epilepsy for Dummies: Your New Handbook for Better Understanding Epilepsy

    Epilepsy for Dummies: Your New Handbook for Better Understanding Epilepsy
    Dec 3 2025
    Journalist Lauren Aguirre and Dr. Elizabeth Thiele, the authors of the recently published “Epilepsy for Dummies,” discuss their collaboration and explain why their perspectives as epilepsy patient/parent and provider were essential in creating a reliable resource for those living with epilepsy and those who love them.
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    30 mins
  • A Mother and Neurologist Shares Her Son’s Amazing Journey From Traumatic Birth to Seizure Freedom

    A Mother and Neurologist Shares Her Son’s Amazing Journey From Traumatic Birth to Seizure Freedom
    Nov 5 2025
    Dr. Kendra Cagniart shares her son’s journey with epilepsy, from a traumatic birth in which he arrived in status epilepticus through his current period of seizure freedom at the age of 9. This is an amazing and ultimately hopeful journey of a young boy living with epilepsy.
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    41 mins
  • Turning the Tragedy of SUDEP into Hope: The Story of the Joanna Sophia Foundation

    Turning the Tragedy of SUDEP into Hope: The Story of the Joanna Sophia Foundation
    Oct 1 2025
    In honor of SUDEP Action Day on Wednesday, October 15th, we speak with Maria Teresa Ioannou of the Joanna Sophia Foundation who tragically lost her nine-year-old daughter Joanna Sophia to SUDEP in 2018.
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    Less than 1 minute
  • On the Brink of Breakthrough: How an Arthritis Med Could Stop Seizures

    On the Brink of Breakthrough: How an Arthritis Med Could Stop Seizures
    Sep 3 2025
    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.
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    55 mins
  • A Family’s Journey with Panayiotopoulos Syndrome

    A Family’s Journey with Panayiotopoulos Syndrome
    Aug 6 2025
    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.
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    36 mins
  • 10 Years of Ella’s Race: Raising Awareness & Finding Hope in Fundraising for Epilepsy Research

    10 Years of Ella’s Race: Raising Awareness & Finding Hope in Fundraising for Epilepsy Research
    Jul 2 2025
    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.
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    38 mins
  • Advocating for a National Plan for Epilepsy in Uncertain Times

    Advocating for a National Plan for Epilepsy in Uncertain Times
    Jun 4 2025
    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.
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    46 mins