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Children and Epilepsy

Children and Epilepsy

  For years, people with seizure disorders have been stigmatized. Even today, epilepsy remains widely misunderstood, and the disease can particularly difficult for children, and for their parents. What services and treatments are available? What about research for causes and cures?

Host Keith Shortall was joined by:

Susan Axelrod, Chair of CURE--Citizens United for Research in Epilepsy (Chicago)

Christy Shake, mother of Calvin, who has epilepsy
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Dr. Peter Morrison, pediatric neurologist with Maine Medical Center

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