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When Catherine Holliday of Forest Hall, Tyneside noticed her newborn son, Paddy was making strange movements and hadn’t smiled at nearly six weeks old, little did she know that he was about to be diagnosed with an incredibly rare form of epilepsy.  The youngster was initially diagnosed with a milk allergy, but he continued to…

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COVID-19 has affected many businesses and resulted in the need for many to adapt in order to continue providing services. At National Epilepsy Training, we are committed to providing the same high levels of service for both our care and training services regardless of the situation. Our clients deserve and need nothing less from us…

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Much of the country is currently taking social distancing measures with many more completely isolating in an attempt to slow the spread of the coronavirus outbreak, COVID-19. Whilst isolation has implications for everyone in the general population, there are a few extra considerations that people with epilepsy must take into account.  Here’s some advice on…

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Since the outbreak of COVID-19, there have been a number of questions from the epilepsy community. Understandably, people want to know if having epilepsy is a factor that means they need to be extra cautious.  Of course, not everything is known about COVID-19 at this point, however, in this post, we’re going to try and…

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We at National Epilepsy Training are working tirelessly to adapt our services in response to the COVID-19 coronavirus pandemic. Our first priority is to ensure that our staff and clients are safe and have the support that they need during this time and also to follow government guidance to slow the spread of the outbreak. …

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Researchers have developed a new graphene-based implant that could have a huge impact on the advancement of epilepsy treatments. The implant is able to monitor and record electrical activity within the brain at extremely low frequencies that were previously too low to monitor.  It’s this discovery that has unlocked new data, which is found below…

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