Epilepsy Blog Posts

• People in prison face disproportionate mental and physical illness

  05 Mar 2026

  • Ross Nedoma

  
• Annual health checks may reduce emergency hospital admissions for preventable conditions

  30 Sep 2016

  • Pauline Heslop

  
• Service responses to people with learning disabilities and epilepsy

  23 Dec 2015

  • Laura Bennett

  
• Increased risk of mortality in people with learning disabilities and epilepsy: Findings from a systematic review

  22 Jun 2015

  • Silvana Mengoni

  
• Why multi-agency working, not accommodation type, is the key to better outcomes for people with epilepsy

  27 Apr 2015

  • Jill Hughes

  
• Withdrawing sodium valproate reduced aggression in young man with learning disabilities

  27 May 2014

  • John Northfield

  
• For Connor: Day 62 out of #107days

  20 May 2014

  • John Northfield
  • and Nikki Newhouse

  
• Rates of psychosis in epilepsy may not be as high as previously reported, says new systematic review

  05 May 2014

  • Emma Cernis

  
• Psychiatric illnesses and some chronic physical illnesses are associated with an increased risk of self-harm and suicide

  18 Feb 2014

  • Andre Tomlin

  
• Cognitive behavioural therapy used as treatment for psychogenic non-epileptic seizures in woman with learning disabilities

  02 Oct 2013

  • John Northfield