• Assessing who will benefit from epilepsy surgery using
  imaging
• Understanding absence seizures
• Changes in cell structure where seizures start
• Pinpointing the gene behind childhood absence
  epilepsy
• Cognitive behaviour therapy for epilepsy
• The first stages of a seizure
• Improving epilepsy treatment at GP level - screening
  for depression
• Are some types of epilepsy forms of autoimmune
  disease?
• How to use fMRI to find where memories are processed
  in the brain

We have 14 grants ongoing from previous years (these grants were made by the Epilepsy Research Foundation):

• Investigating a form of epilepsy where a seizure
  consists of a short period of forgetting
• The role of trigger chemicals called purines during
  seizures
• What happens in the brain at the moment when a
  seizure begins?
• The genes behind a new epilepsy syndrome starting in
  infancy
• How seizures damage the brain
• What is the link between febrile seizures in childhood
  and epilepsy later in life?
• Memory decline in patients with temporal lobe
  epilepsy - could it be stopped?
• The effect of being diagnosed with epilepsy on
  quality of life
• Electrical activity in the brain just before a seizure
  starts
• How do women with epilepsy take decisions about
  pregnancy?
• Looking for genes associated with idiopathic
  generalised epilepsy
• Excessive neurotransmitter release during
  seizures - how and why?
• Neurotransmitter receptor distribution and epilepsy
• The types of epilepsy seen in very young children

The Epilepsy Research Foundation and the Fund for Epilepsy merged in 2007 to form Epilepsy Research UK. Find out more about the merger in our video here

For more information, please contact us.

Epilepsy Research UK, PO Box 3004, London W4 4XT Tel: (+44) (0) 20 8995 4781 • Fax: (+44) (0) 870 838 1069 Registered Charity No. 1100394