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Epilepsy Stigma and Global Public Health

A personal and global-health look at epilepsy, seizure stigma, treatment gaps, public misunderstanding, and the burden of neurological disease.

Indexed essay March 12, 2025 By Devin Teichrow scienceglobal healthpublic healthneurologyneuroscience

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By Devin Teichrow. Published March 12, 2025.

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A personal and global-health look at epilepsy, seizure stigma, treatment gaps, public misunderstanding, and the burden of neurological disease.

Part 4 of the neuroepidemiology series gets a bit personal with my story dealing with epilepsy contrasted with the global experience

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