The BC Epilepsy Society recently launched a book club where we are reading the book Daring Greatly by Brene Brown. I read this book right after I was diagnosed with epilepsy and it had a…
Did you know that doctors and scientists have long observed a relationship between sleep and epileptic seizures? In fact, Aristotle observed this connection in antiquity, with doctors in the late 19th century recognizing that most…
I have spent hours looking into the connection between yoga and epilepsy, spending time on my computer trailing down the depths of the Internet, looking for research that links the usefulness of yoga and dealing…
If you are a person living with epilepsy who is living on your own and you want to cook for yourself, the stove can seem daunting. To me, having a hot pan on a hot…
Did you know that epilepsy can affect your memory? I sure do! Research has show that epilepsy can affect several ways your memory functions; attention and encoding, memory storage, and memory retrieval. It can affect…
Hey there! My name is Christine Jamieson and I work with the BC Epilepsy Society as an Impact Speaker. I am also a person living with epilepsy who has the titles of Miss BC 2018/2019…
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