Epilepsia is the leading, most authoritative source for current clinical and research results on all aspects of epilepsy. As the journal of the International League Against Epilepsy, Epilepsia presents subscribers with scientific evidence and clinical methodology in:
clinical neurology,
neurophysiology,
molecular biology,
neuroimaging,
neurochemistry,
neurosurgery,
pharmacology,
neuroepidemiology,
therapeutic trials.
Each monthly issue features original peer reviewed articles, brief communications, editorial commentaries, meeting reports, and announcements.  

EDITORS-IN-CHIEF

Astrid Nehlig
Faculty of Medicine, University of Strasbourg Strasbourg, France
Michael Sperling
Comprehensive Epilepsy Center
Jefferson University Hospitals
Philadelphia, PA, USA

EICs' Conflict of Interest Statements
 
ASSOCIATE EDITORS

Stéphane Auvin
Epileptologist and Child Neurology at Robert-Debré University Hospital & INSERM U1141, Paris-Diderot University, Paris, France
Epilepsy Related Interests:Pediatric epilepsies and their treatments including dietary treatment. Preclinical investigations and antiepileptic drug development. Basic science interests in relationship between inflammation and epilepsy.
Heinz Beck
University Professor, Department of Epileptology, Bonn University, Germany
Epilepsy Related Interests:Understanding the behavior of complex neuronal circuits in the healthy and epileptic brain.

Fernando Cendes
Professor of Neurology, Department of Neurology, University of Campinas, UNICAMP, Campinas, Sao Paolo, Brazil
Epilepsy Related Interests:Structural and functional neuroimaging, Epilepsy surgery, Diagnostic methods, Temporal lobe epilepsy, Hippocampal sclerosis, Malformations of cortical development.
Mark Cook
Professor of Medicine at the University of Melbourne and Head of Neurology at St. Vincent’s Hospital, Melbourne, Australia
Epilepsy Related Interests: A clinical epileptologist, with research interests in surgery for epilepsy, seizure dynamics and prediction, and novel drug delivery systems.


Alica M. Goldman
Associate Professor, Department of Neurology, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX, USA
Epilepsy related interests: Epilepsy genetics, ethical issues related to genetic studies of epilepsy, genetics of sudden death in epilepsy (SUDEP).
Dale Hesdorffer
Professor at the Gertrude H Sergievsky Center and Department of Epidemiology at Columbia University, New York, NY, USA
Epilepsy related interests:Epidemiological research has focused upon epilepsy comorbidity, the consequences of febrile seizures, status epilepticus, risk factors for seizures, and risk factors for mortality in epilepsy, especially SUDEP.

Julia Jacobs
Associate Professor, Director Pediatric Epilepsy Program, Alberta Children's Hospital, Canada
Adjunct Professor, Department of Neuropediatrics and Muscle Disease, Faculty of Medicine, University of Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany
Epilepsy related interests: Clinical Neurophysiology; Functional neuroimaging; Epilepsy surgery; Neonatal seizures; Early onset epilepsies and childhood epileptic encephalopathies.
Nathalie Jette
Professor in Neurology and Population Health Sciences and Policy at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
Epilepsy Related interests: As part of her research program, Dr. Jette is studying appropriateness of care, access to care, comorbidities (especially mental health) and outcomes in those with epilepsy, including in particular, surgical outcomes and patient reported outcomes.


David Loring
Director of Neuropsychology and Professor of Neurology and Pediatrics at Emory University, Atlanta GA, USA
Epilepsy related interests:  Cognitive and behavioral side effects of epilepsy and treatment interventions, cognitive.
Philip Patsalos
Emeritus Professor of Clinical Pharmacology, UCL-Queen Square Institute of Neurology, London, United Kingdom
Epilepsy related interests: Basic and clinical pharmacology of antiepileptic drugs including pharmacokinetic and drug interaction profiling and therapeutic drug monitoring.

Annapurna Poduri
Associate Professor in Neurology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA
Epilepsy related interests: Epilepsy genetics, brain malformations.
Heidrun Potschka
Professor of Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmacy with focus on neuropharmacology, Munich, Germany
Epilepsy related interests: Pathophysiology and pharmacotherapy of epilepsy with a specific focus on mechanisms of drug resistance, mechanisms of epileptogenesis, and development of disease-modifying strategies.

 
Prahba Siddarth
Research Statistician, Semel Institute for Neuroscience and Human Behavior, UCLA School of Medicine, Los Angeles, CA, USA
Epilepsy related interests: Statistical methodology pertinent to dealing with research problems in epilepsy; comorbidities of epilepsy, especially psychopathology, impaired cognition, language, and social skills in pediatric epilepsy; structural and functional brain imaging in pediatric epilepsy.
Roberto Tuchman
Chief, Department of Neurology, Nicklaus Children's Hospital, Miami Children's Health System, Miami, FL, USA
Epilepsy Related Interests: Epilepsy and developmental disorders of the brain.
Jo Wilmshurst
Head of Paediatric Neurology at Red Cross War Memorial Children’s Hospital, a tertiary teaching hospital under the University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa
Epilepsia related interests: Related to child neurology; specifically epilepsy and neuromuscular diseases, as well as developing training and resources in Africa to improve health care for children with neurologic diseases.
 
 
 
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Editorial Board
 
Nicholas Abend
Children's Hospital of Philadelphia
Philadelphia, PA, USA
Maromi Nei
Jefferson Comprehensive Epilepsy Center
Philadelphia, PA, USA
Danielle Andrade
Toronto Western Hospital
Toronto, ON, Canada
Terence O’Brien
Royal Melbourne Hospital
Parkville, VIC, Australia
Albert Becker
University of Bonn Medical Center
Bonn, Germany
Filiz Onat
Marmara University School of Medicine
Istanbul, Turkey
Ettore Beghi
IRCCS-Instituto Mario Negri
Milano, Italy
Pasquale Parisi
Sapienza University
Rome, Italy
Sándor Beniczky
Danish Epilepsy Centre
Dianalund, Denmark
Philip Pearl
Children's Hospital Boston
Boston, MA, USA
Karin Borges
University of Queensland
Brisbane, QLD, Australia
Sylvain Rheims
Hospices Civils de Lyon
Lyon, France
Roberto Caraballo
Hospital de Pediatría J.P. Garrahan
Buenos Aires, Argentina
Andrea Rossetti
CHUV
Lausanne, Switzerland
Martin Holtkamp
Epilepsy Center Berlin-Brandenburg
Berlin, Germany
Andreas Schulze-Bonhage
University Hospital Freiburg
Freiburg, Germany
Damir Janigro
Cleveland Clinic
Cleveland, OH, USA
Margitta Seeck
University Hospital of Geneva
Geneva, Switzerland
Lara Jehi
Cleveland clinic epilepsy Center
Cleveland, OH, USA
Aashit Shah
Wayne State University
Detroit, MI, USA
Barbara Jobst
Geisel School of Medicine
Hanover, NH, USA
Manjari Tripathi
All India Institute of Medical Sciences
New Delhi, DL, India
Csaba Juhasz
Children's Hospital of Michigan
Detroit, MI, USA
Erwin Van Vliet
University of Amsterdam
Amsterdam, Netherlands
Dorothee Kasteleijn-Noslt Trenite
University Medical Centre Utrecht
Rome, Italy
Elaine Wirrell
Mayo Clinic
Rochester, MN, USA
Katja Kobow
University Hospital Erlangen
Erlangen, Germany
Sameer Zuberi
Royal Hospital for Sick Children
Glasgow, United Kingdom
Rudiger Köhling
University of Rostock
Rostock, Germany
 
Holger Lerche
University of Tubingen
Tubingen, Germany
 
To view the Editorial Board conflict of interest statements please click here
 
 
ILAE Executive Committee
Samuel Wiebe Calgary, AB, Canada
J. Helen Cross London, United Kingdom
Edward H. Bertram Charlottesville, VA, USA
Alla Guekht Moscow, Russia
Emilio Perucca Pavia, Italy
Alexis Arzimanoglou Lyon, France
Martin Brodie Glasgow, United Kindgom
Roberto Caraballo Buenos Aires, Argentina
Aristea Galanopoulou Bronx, NY, USA
Jean Gotman Montreal, QC, Canada
Akio Ikeda Kyoto, Japan
Nathalie Jetté New York, NY, USA
Angelina Kakooza Kampala, Uganda
Guenter Kraemer Zürich, Switzerland
Shichuo Li Beijing, China
Astrid Nehlig Paris, France
Dieter Schmidt Berlin, Germany
Mary Secco London, ON, Canada
Michael R. Sperling Philadelphia, PA, USA
Chahnez Triki Sfax, Tunisia
Eugen Trinka Salzburg, Austria
Xuefeng Wang Chongqing, China
Anthony Zimba Lusaka, Zambia