Epilepsy

We are speaking today with Christalle Bodiford.  Christalle is an artist, advocate, writer, and an adventurer who lives with Epilepsy.  Seizures and epilepsy are not the same, which you will learn about after listening to this week's episode!

We are speaking today with Christalle Bodiford.  Christalle is an artist, advocate, writer, and an adventurer who lives with Epilepsy. 

Seizures and epilepsy are not the same. An epileptic seizure is a transient occurrence of signs and/or symptoms due to abnormal excessive or synchronous neuronal activity in the brain. Epilepsy is a disease characterized by an enduring predisposition to generate epileptic seizures and by the neurobiological, cognitive, psychological, and social consequences of this condition. Translation: a seizure is an event and epilepsy is the disease involving recurrent unprovoked seizures. (https://www.epilepsy.com/learn/about-epilepsy-basics/what-epilepsy )