Epilepsy Action Australia

Epilepsy Action Australia is an Australian charity providing education and support services to children and adults in Australia with epilepsy and other seizure disorders. The group is made up of caseworkers, registered nurses and other service providers, and aims to meet individuals' social, emotional and seizure management needs, with information, referral services and consultancy for professional organisations.

Until 2005, the group was called the Epilepsy Association of Australia.

External links

Official website

Seizures and epilepsy

Basics

Seizure types
Aura (warning sign)
Postictal state
Epileptogenesis
Neonatal seizure
Epilepsy in children

Management

Anticonvulsants
Investigations
- Electroencephalography
Epileptologist

Personal issues

Epilepsy and driving
Epilepsy and employment

Seizure types

Focal	Seizures Simple partial Complex partial Gelastic seizure Epilepsy Temporal lobe epilepsy Frontal lobe epilepsy Rolandic epilepsy Sleep-related hypermotor epilepsy Panayiotopoulos syndrome Vertiginous epilepsy
Generalised	Tonic–clonic Absence seizure Atonic seizure Automatism Benign familial neonatal seizures Lennox–Gastaut syndrome Myoclonic astatic epilepsy Epileptic spasms
Status epilepticus	Epilepsia partialis continua Complex partial status epilepticus
Myoclonic epilepsy	Progressive myoclonus epilepsy Dentatorubral–pallidoluysian atrophy Unverricht–Lundborg disease MERRF syndrome Lafora disease Early myoclonic encephalopathy Juvenile myoclonic epilepsy
Non-epileptic seizure	Febrile seizure Psychogenic non-epileptic seizure