Path of Life

Donate. The “PATH OF LIFE” charitable foundation is the only one in Armenia that gives special attention to the health needs of children with epilepsy and complex neurological disorders. It supports them with medication, diagnostic tests (MRI, EEG, PET-CT), genetic testing, and surgery. Learn more. Epilepsy is a chronic neurological disorder often accompanied by involuntary limb movements, eye rolling, and repeated loss of consciousness, which can sometimes be accompanied by seizures. Seizures result from excessive electrical activity in the brain, which can cause a person to lose consciousness. Signs of epilepsy include: convulsions, a blank stare, anxiety, and loss of consciousness. March 26 has been observed as World Epilepsy Day since 2008. Since 2008, March 26 has been observed as World Epilepsy Day, also known as Purple Day. The idea was initiated by a nine-year-old Canadian girl named Cassidy Megan, who had epilepsy. In her nine years of life, she had already experienced the discriminatory and prejudiced attitudes of adults and peers. To dispel myths about the condition, Cassidy decided to draw people’s attention to herself and others with epilepsy, emphasizing that epilepsy does not mean intellectual disability, is not a sentence, and that discrimination against people with epilepsy must end. Learn more. The causes of epilepsy vary. For 40% of people, the cause is unknown. In other cases, epilepsy may be caused by brain injury, stroke, infection, brain tumor, genetic factors, and more. Learn more. “I used to ask God, ‘Why me? Why my child?’” The power of one dram: to the Path of Life charitable non-governmental organization. Knowledge. IMom’s. At what age does epilepsy usually begin? Epilepsy and avoidance therapy