American Epilepsy Society

Important Announcements

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AES 2025 Registration and Housing are OPEN!

Join us in Atlanta December 5-9 for the best meeting in epilepsy! Early bird pricing ends October 8.

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Volunteer to Serve on an AES Committee
The AES Call for Volunteers is OPEN! Volunteer service provides a pathway for AES members to engage more deeply with the work of the Society, build a career-enhancing record of impactful volunteer accomplishments, and connect meaningfully with other members.  
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Browse the AES Learn catalog!

Launched in 2025, the AES Learn catalog is home to the online learning resources you need to stay current in epilepsy. 

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Career Center
The AES career center offers job seekers and hiring employers valuable resources designed to support career advancement and employer hiring needs. Employers can browse resumes and list current openings and job seekers can post their resumes and browse open positions.
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Support the future of epilepsy research.

Your gift will help AES attract the best and brightest to epilepsy — the professionals who will generate new discoveries and treatments for generations to come.

Make a Gift

Support the future of epilepsy research.

Giving Levels:

  • Innovators Circle: $2,500+
  • Discovery Circle: $1,000 to $2,499
  • Explorers Circle: $500 to $999
  • Builders Circle: $250 to $499

 

Gifts of all sizes are deeply appreciated. The American Epilepsy Society is a 501(c)(3) organization. Gifts are tax-deductible to the extent allowed by law.

Epilepsy is the most common and potentially devastating neurological disease that affects people across the lifespan:

  • 1 in 26 people will have epilepsy in their lifetime.
  • Seizures know no boundaries, striking any age, any socio-economic level, and any ethnicity.
  • Between 2.2 and 3 million Americans, including almost 400,000 children, live with epilepsy. Of those, one-third suffer treatment-resistant seizures that do not respond to currently available medications.

Epilepsy Currents

SOCIETY JOURNAL

Epilepsy Currents, the Journal of the American Epilepsy Society

Epilepsy Currents is a bi-monthly open access current-awareness journal providing reviews, commentaries and abstracts from the world’s literature on the research and treatment of epilepsy. Epilepsy Currents surveys and comments on all important research and developments in a format that is easy to read and reference. An outstanding Editorial Board reviews the literature and assigns topics and articles to world experts for comment. In addition, the Editors commission review articles on important subjects.