Overcoming Seizures to Pursue a Neuroscience Degree and Help Others Living with Epilepsy

Seizing Life
04/09/2024 29 min
Overcoming Seizures to Pursue a Neuroscience Degree and Help Others Living with Epilepsy

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This month we welcome Matthew Summerfield to the podcast. Matthew has lived with epilepsy since his first seizure at the age of eleven. Though he was advised early on not to tell anyone about his epilepsy, Matthew has refused to be held back by seizures, studying neurosceience as a college undergraduate, and now pursuing a PhD while working in an epilepsy research lab at the University of Iowa.

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