Understand epilepsy.
Choose treatment wisely.
EpilepsyWise brings diagnosis, first aid, daily-life guidance and clinical treatment into one place. Its central principle is simple: the treatment should not become a greater burden than the epilepsy it is meant to control.
Patients &
Families
Clear information for understanding epilepsy, responding to seizures and living as fully and safely as possible.
Health
Professionals
A practical route from diagnosis and classification to investigations, medicine selection and escalation.
NEW · INTERACTIVE LEARNING LAB
Follow the clues. Choose wisely.
Build a pathway from symptoms to epilepsy patterns, EEG and MRI, then medicine choice. Or test your reasoning with eight short cases.
LevWise
A deep, evidence-led examination of levetiracetam — not because the drug is “bad”, but because it shows what can go wrong when any medicine becomes a reflex choice.
Enter LevWiseLevWise is not against levetiracetam.
Levetiracetam is an important antiseizure medicine with legitimate and often valuable uses. The concern is reflex prescribing: using it as a default without enough attention to epilepsy type, behavioural vulnerability, comorbidities, alternatives and treatment burden.
The principle now extends to every drug
Don't replace one prescribing favourite with another. Compare mechanism, efficacy, half-life, interactions, adverse effects and the individual patient.
The EpilepsyWise philosophy
Aim for the best achievable seizure control with the least possible adverse-effect burden, so that a person's life is disturbed as little as possible by either epilepsy or its treatment — including the possibility of returning to driving when seizure control and licensing standards permit.
Read our philosophy