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A practical list covering what, where, who, when and how — plus medicines, safety, recovery and SUDEP.
A structured, evidence-led library for understanding epilepsy from the foundations through to the parts that are often overlooked.
Browse the complete Epilepsy A–Z index →
Use this section like a handbook. Choose a main route below, or use the complete A–Z if you already know the subject you want.
Need a quick answer?
Start with Epilepsy Questions — Straight Answers for clear responses to common questions such as driving, missed medication, photosensitivity, memory, recovery and whether epilepsy can be cured.
The foundations
Begin here if you are new to epilepsy, supporting someone else, or want a clear refresher.
What Is Epilepsy?
What epilepsy means, why one seizure does not always mean epilepsy, and why experiences vary.
Seizure Types
Focal, generalised, unknown and unclassified seizures using the ILAE 2025 framework.
Diagnosis & Tests
How clinical history, EEG, ECG, MRI and other tests can contribute to diagnosis.
Treatment Options
Antiseizure medicines and specialist options when seizures remain difficult to control.
Beyond the seizure
The visible seizure can be only one part of the experience. These pages focus on what can happen during recovery and how people can be supported safely.
Postictal Recovery
Confusion, memory, exhaustion, behaviour changes and the return towards a person’s usual baseline.
Seizure First Aid
What to do, what not to do, and how support continues after visible seizure activity ends.
Living with epilepsy
Epilepsy can affect thinking, confidence, sleep, safety and everyday functioning as well as seizures themselves.
Memory & Cognition
How epilepsy, brain networks, seizures, medication, mood, sleep and fatigue can interact with memory, attention and thinking.
Sleep & Epilepsy
How sleep state, sleep disruption, nocturnal seizures, daytime fatigue and separate sleep disorders can interact with epilepsy.
Safety & Everyday Risks
Practical ways to reduce risk around water, cooking, falls, sleep, exercise, monitoring and everyday independence.
Want a closer look at one question?
Deep Dives takes narrower questions and investigates them in more detail.
Global Epilepsy
Explore how epilepsy care, causes, stigma, treatment access and outcomes differ across countries, regions and health systems.
Evidence standard
Clinical information is checked against authoritative international and national sources, including the International League Against Epilepsy, World Health Organization, NICE, NHS and relevant peer-reviewed literature. We write explanations in our own words and separate medical evidence from lived experience.
Important: this website provides education and awareness, not individual diagnosis or treatment advice.