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Voices of Epilepsy

Provincial Budget Update

March 29, 2018

Epilepsy Ontario is disappointed to see no dedicated funding for epilepsy education and support programs in this year’s provincial budget announcement. Epilepsy Ontario and Community Epilepsy Agencies across the province have pushed to include core program funding as part of this year’s budget. The need for education and support program funding was the key message…

The “Rhiannon” Project

March 23, 2018

by Sean O’Malley Last year on Purple Day, Epilepsy Ontario announced it was funding the first research clinical study in Canada to look at the intriguing possibility that music therapy could play a role in seizure reduction. With Purple Day upon us again, that study, conducted at the Krembil Neuroscience Centre at Toronto Western Hospital,…