How To Improve Epilepsy Appointments & Improve Quality of Life - Morten Ingvar Lossius, National Centre for Epilepsy in Norway (SSE), Oslo, Norway
Podcast:
Epileptologist Morten Lossius provides recommendations for people with an epilepsy and their clinicians when it comes to appointments, patient sex lives, easing drug side effects, precision medicine, and how crucial regular appointments are. This is part 2 of 2.
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Meet Morten
Recommendations
Recommendations for physicians - including sexual issues
Recommendations for people with an epilepsy - make a mindmap prior to the appointment!
Sex life
Easing the burden of drug side-effects
Identifying symptom correlation vs causation
Becoming seizure-free
Trial and error and precision medicine
Regular/frequent appointments vs capacity
Responsibility of GP
Support from the general public required
Thank you
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Morten Lossius is a professor, senior researcher, epileptologist, and lead of the National Centre for Epilepsy in Norway (SSE) - serving patients with difficult-to-treat-epilepsy from all over the Norway.
People that he helps range from those with a rare epilepsy and intellectual disability to temporal lobe epilepsy and autism spectrum disorders.
The primary goal of the research conducted at SSE is to provide new knowledge, which, in turn, will improve the ability to attend to the needs of people with an epilepsy, thus, the research is largely clinical.
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University of Oslo: mortlos
Oslo University Hospital: Morten Ingvar Lossius
Oslo University Hospital: The research unit at SSE
Complex Epilepsy Research Group: ous-research.no/epilepsy
Publications: ous-research.no/home/epilepsy/Research
EpiCARE: members-of-epicare
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