The Epilepsy Foundation of NJ (EFNJ) will join Foul Rift Productions on Saturday, May 17  and Sunday, May 18 as they host their third annual "Muses in the Vineyard" music festival at the Four Sisters Winery in Belvidere, NJ. 

 

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The two-day festival promises a remarkable weekend of music, wine, food and fun, with proceeds benefiting EFNJ. New Jersey's own Red Molly, Nashville's Amy Speace, Christine Havrilla, Sarah Ayers, Maura Kennedy, and Austin's Jess Klein are included in a lineup of 20 different female performers. In addition to the music, Muses in the Vineyard will feature wine tastings and sales by the glass or by the bottle of Four Sisters Winery's award winning wines, a fine assortment of arts & crafts vendors, children's activities and available food and beverages to satisfy any palate. Continue reading

 

Visit the FRN Marketplace to experience the programs and services FRN has to offer children and adults with developmental disabilities.

• Interactive sessions with program staff
• Guide to children services (DCF) and adult services (DDD)
• Light refreshments
• Door prizes and giveaways

Bergen County View flyer Tuesday, June 3, 2014 4:00 PM to 7:00 PM Maywood Library 459 Maywood Ave Maywood, NJ 07607 For questions or issues filling out the registration form, please call Ernestine at (973) 244-0850.

Camden County View flyer Wednesday, June 11, 2014 6:00 PM to 9:00 PM Haddonfield Public Library 60 N Haddon Ave Haddonfield, NJ 08033 For questions or issues filling out the registration form, please call Jaszmin at (856) 858-5900.

A recently FDA-approved device has been shown to reduce seizures in patients with medication-resistant epilepsy by as much as 50 percent. When coupled with an innovative electrode placement planning system developed by physicians at Rush, the device facilitated the complete elimination of seizures in nearly half of the implanted Rush patients enrolled in the decade-long clinical trials.

That's good news for a large portion of the nearly 400,000 people in the U.S. living with epilepsy whose seizures can't be controlled with medications and who are not candidates for brain surgery. Continue reading 

The Epilepsy Foundation of New Jersey will be holding a BRAND NEW family fun walk and 5K this October in Jersey City.

Between 10 and 20 percent of all cases of epilepsy result from severe head injury, but a new drug promises to prevent post-traumatic seizures and may forestall further brain damage caused by seizures in those who already have epilepsy.

A team of researchers from the University of California, Berkeley, Ben-Gurion University in Israel and Charit�-University Medicine in Germany reports in the current issue of the journal Annals of Neurology that a commonly used hypertension drug prevents a majority of cases of post-traumatic epilepsy in a rodent model of the disease. If independent experiments now underway in rats confirm this finding, human clinical trials could start within a few years. Continue reading