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- Pregnancy and epilepsy
Here you can learn through text and video what you should know about family planning, pregnancy, and childbirth if you have epilepsy.
- Depression in epilepsy
Depression is not an uncommon comorbidity in epilepsy. Here, through text and video, you can learn everything important about how depression is diagnosed, why it develops, and what can be done about it.
Additional Information
- How wearables are changing seizures, daily life and therapy
Listen to Prof. Dr. Rainer Surges in an episode of the Deutschlandfunk podcast “Sprechstunde” from February 24, 2026.
- SUDEP: prevention through education
As part of the podcast “Der Epilepsie-Podcast der Mut macht” from June 6, 2024, Prof. Dr. Rainer Surges speaks with Dr. Iris Killinger from the Oskar Killinger Foundation about SUDEP prevention options. The Oskar Killinger Foundation is dedicated to raising awareness of and preventing SUDEP. A lot of information about SUDEP can be found on the foundation’s website: Webseite der Stiftung
- Diagnosis and treatment of epilepsy
Listen to Prof. Dr. Rainer Surges in an episode of the Deutschlandfunk podcast “Sprechstunde” from April 5, 2022.
The Deutsche Epilepsievereinigung e.V., the Federal Association of Epilepsy Self-Help in Germany, has published a special issue on SUDEP. The author of this technical article is Uni.-Prof. Dr. med. Rainer Surges.
You can download the special issue here (in German).
Information on SUDEP is also available on the Deutschen Epilepsievereinigung e.V. and the SUDEP-Initiative websites (in German).
In the current issue of the members' magazine einfälle, an article authored by Prof. Surges deals with the question of whether SUDEP can be prevented through the use of so-called wearables in epilepsy treatment.
The article can be downloaded here (in German).
