Epilepsy Research UK

Epilepsy Research UK is a British medical research charity dedicated to curing epilepsy.^[1]

In March 2007, the Epilepsy Research Foundation merged with the Fund for Epilepsy to become Epilepsy Research UK (ERUK). ERUK is the only national organisation exclusively dedicated to funding research into all areas of epilepsy. It gives priority to those areas which have the potential to produce results in immediate problem areas, including: research leading to improvements in the accuracy of diagnosis; and research into improving the treatment and quality of life of the patient.

ERUK funds research at institutes throughout the UK and in 2008 allocated approximately £1,000,000 to research projects. ERUK also provides information about epilepsy and advances in epilepsy research via its website and a monthly e-newsletter.

References

↑ Charity Commission. Epilepsy Research UK, registered charity no. 1100394.

External links

Official website

Seizures and epilepsy (G40–G41, 345)

Basics

Treatments

Anticonvulsants
Electroencephalography (diagnosis method)
Epileptologist

Personal issues

Seizure types
Epilepsy types

Focal	Seizures Simple partial Complex partial Gelastic seizure Epilepsy Temporal lobe epilepsy Frontal lobe epilepsy Rolandic epilepsy Nocturnal epilepsy Panayiotopoulos syndrome

Generalised	Tonic-clonic Absence seizure Atonic seizure Automatism Benign familial neonatal epilepsy Lennox-Gastaut Doose syndrome West

Status epilepticus	Epilepsia partialis continua Complex partial status epilepticus

Myoclonic epilepsy	Progressive myoclonus epilepsies Dentatorubral-pallidoluysian atrophy Unverricht-Lundborg disease MERRF syndrome Lafora disease Juvenile myoclonic epilepsy

Non-epileptic seizures	Febrile seizure Psychogenic non-epileptic seizures

Related disorders

Epilepsy
organizations

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