American Epilepsy Society

Important Announcements

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AES Reaffirms Commitment to Health Equity and Inclusion

Amid evolving health care policies, the American Epilepsy Society reaffirms its unwavering commitment to advancing health equity for people with epilepsy and fostering an inclusive, supportive environment for epilepsy professionals in research and clinical care.

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AES Advocates for National Plan for Epilepsy During Capitol Hill Visit
To improve outcomes for the millions of Americans living with the condition, the American Epilepsy Society visited Capitol Hill on Tuesday, Feb. 11 to advocate for the creation of a National Plan for Epilepsy.
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Funding Available for Established Investigators

Funding is available for basic, translational, and clinical research for epilepsy, seizures, and related disorders. Proposals are due April 2, 2025.

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Career Center
The AES career center offers job seekers and hiring employers valuable resources designed to support career advancement and employer hiring needs. Employers can browse resumes and list current openings and job seekers can post their resumes and browse open positions.
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Support the future of epilepsy research.

Your gift will help AES attract the best and brightest to epilepsy — the professionals who will generate new discoveries and treatments for generations to come.

Make a Gift

Support the future of epilepsy research.

Giving Levels:

  • Innovators Circle: $2,500+
  • Discovery Circle: $1,000 to $2,499
  • Explorers Circle: $500 to $999
  • Builders Circle: $250 to $499

 

Gifts of all sizes are deeply appreciated. The American Epilepsy Society is a 501(c)(3) organization. Gifts are tax-deductible to the extent allowed by law.

Epilepsy is the most common and potentially devastating neurological disease that affects people across the lifespan:

  • 1 in 26 people will have epilepsy in their lifetime.
  • Seizures know no boundaries, striking any age, any socio-economic level, and any ethnicity.
  • Between 2.2 and 3 million Americans, including almost 400,000 children, live with epilepsy. Of those, one-third suffer treatment-resistant seizures that do not respond to currently available medications.

Epilepsy Currents

SOCIETY JOURNAL

Epilepsy Currents, the Journal of the American Epilepsy Society

Epilepsy Currents is a bi-monthly open access current-awareness journal providing reviews, commentaries and abstracts from the world’s literature on the research and treatment of epilepsy. Epilepsy Currents surveys and comments on all important research and developments in a format that is easy to read and reference. An outstanding Editorial Board reviews the literature and assigns topics and articles to world experts for comment. In addition, the Editors commission review articles on important subjects.