Our epilepsy and seizures community of patients, family, friends and doctors has been busy.
Our NEREG team has been very busy during these past months between presenting at conferences, publishing about epilepsy in textbooks, and working hard to bring awareness through International Epilepsy Day. Also, in January, NEREG/MAESC met for our quarterly virtual epilepsy book club and every month, our monthly virtual epilepsy support group was held. Also, NEREG is a proud sponsor of Epilepsy Services of NJ’s Paint the Pony Purple!
1) Dr. Lorna Myers, from the Northeast Regional Epilepsy Group and Dr. Gaston Baslet, from Brigham and Women’s Hospital co-authored two chapters on mental health issues in epilepsy.
Myers L & Baslet G (2023). Chapter 258: Psychotherapy in Epilepsy: Epilepsy: a Comprehensive Textbook, 3rd Edition, (Eds Pete Engel, Nico Moshe, Andres Kanner), Wolters Kluwer Health, ISBN/ISSN: 9781975105525.
Baslet G & Myers L (2023) Chapter 354: Dissociation in Epilepsy. In Epilepsy: Epilepsy: a Comprehensive Textbook, 3rd Edition, (Eds Pete Engel, Nico Moshe, Andres Kanner), Wolters Kluwer Health, ISBN/ISSN: 9781975105525
2) Our NEREG/MAESC Epilepsy Book Club met in January.
In this club, members read a book that the group selected in the previous meeting and then “meet” online to talk about it: impressions, opinions, critiques. Books are selected based on their relevance to epilepsy, such as books that have a fictional or non-fictional character with epilepsy or that is written by a person living with epilepsy. The book that was discussed in January was "Lying awake" by Mark Salzman.
This is the brief synopsis of it: In a Carmelite monastery on the outskirts of Los Angeles, life has continued virtually unchanged for centuries. Here, Sister John of the Cross lives in the service of God. She is the only nun who experiences visions and is regarded by the others as a spiritual master. But Sister John is also plagued by powerful headaches and when a doctor reveals that they may be dangerous, she faces a devastating choice. Is this grace merely an illness and will a ‘cure' mean the end of her illuminations and a soul dry and searching?
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3) February 8
Dr. Lorna Myers was invited to present virtually at the Gulf Coast Epilepsy Alliance, TX on Psychogenic non-epileptic seizures
4) February 12
Was International Epilepsy Day and NEREG celebrated it in so many of our offices.
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5) February 16
Drs. Robert Trobliger and Lorna Myers of the Northeast Regional Epilepsy Group and Dr. Lenka Kramska of the Czech Republic presented their research (Validation of the Czech version of Repeatable Battery for the Assessment of Neuropsychological Status (RBANS) in healthy volunteers and PNES patients) at the International Neuropsychological Society (INS) in Times Square, NYC (photo above).
