Every day, each of us works to raise the profile of Epilepsy and to advance global understanding of this condition. Epilepsy Awareness Month is a time when many in the epilepsy community can shine an even greater spotlight on the lives of people living with epilepsy and the work of professionals in this arena.
For the first time AES has joined in recognizing Epilepsy Awareness Month with our Epilepsy: A Window on the Brain materials. This is part of AES’ overall strategic focus to communicate more visibly the impact of epilepsy and raise awareness of the scientific strides being made by our members and others, while also highlighting AES’ role as the primary interdisciplinary society in the field.
AES’s Epilepsy Awareness Campaign has been very well received by our epilepsy community and beyond and has created quite a bit of excitement and interaction on social media. Our introductory announcement is now one of our most popular posts on our page to date, and we have received a lot of support from our Vision 2020 partners in spreading the word on Twitter, Facebook, and even their own websites! We’ve seen posts from patients and other advocates and we have been beating the drum ourselves – in fact our web traffic is up with more than 5,000 new visitors already this month.
AES has been sharing a new topic each week allowing us to continue a steady flow of information throughout the month. Overall this has been a great success so far!
If you haven’t seen our Windows on the Brain materials, we invite you to view them here and to download them for your offices, clinics or to share them on social media.