Focal Epilepsy Onset Later In Life - With Origins In Childhood - Dr. Jacob Pellinen

Signs of focal epilepsy before the seizures start: hear all about it from neurologist and epileptologist Dr. Jacob Pellinen, who shares with us his research and results proving that people can experience things like depression or learning difficulties at school or work before seizure onset. Chapters 📖 00:00 Trailer & intro 00:44 Meet Jacob 02:34 Epilepsy is more than seizures 02:54 Later epilepsy diagnosis & The Human Epilepsy Project 03:05 📄 “Later onset focal epilepsy with roots in childhood: Evidence from early learning difficulty and brain volumes in the Human Epilepsy Project” paper 07:29 Anticipating seizure onset 08:30 Improving recognition of seizure symptoms 09:02 Seizing for years before diagnosis 10:33 Learning difficulties not Intellectual Disability 13:18 Closing thoughts & thanks 🔗 Episode page and transcript https://epilepsysparks.com/epilepsy-s... 🌐 More about Jacob https://epilepsysparks.com/guests/jac... 🌐 More Epilepsy Sparks Insights https://epilepsysparks.com/epilepsy-s... 🎧 Listen on podcast https://share.transistor.fm/s/96ed944e 🔤 Don’t understand terms used? Check out the Epilepsy Sparks Glossary! https://epilepsysparks.com/glossary 📲 Join us on social media! 〰️ LinkedIn   / epilepsy-sparks   〰️ Instagram   / epilepsysparks   〰️ Facebook   / epilepsysparks   〰️ TikTok   / epilepsysparks   〰️ Bluesky https://bsky.app/profile/epilepsyspar... ​ #epilepsy #neuroscience #depression #cognition #anxiety