AIIMS Delhi Special: Can a smelly shoe cure epilepsy? | Health Wealth, Ep 82

In conversation with Dr Manjari Tripathi, Professor and Head of Department of Neurology & Incharge Comprehensive Epilepsy Program, AIIMS Delhi What would you think of a person who suddenly begins to tremble uncontrollably? Would you be friends with someone who can hear Jewish pop in their head when you come to know that they aren’t possessed, but simply a person with epilepsy? And what does it take for a doctor to find the empathy, patience and courage to stand up against decades of pseudo-scientific treatments for this disease? In this episode, we converse with Dr Tripathi on her decades of experience treating epilepsy. She provides the factual truth about what happens in the brain to cause a person to lose control of their behaviour. We also discover important facts about symptoms, diagnosis, treatment and what we as bystanders or caregiver should do during someone’s epileptic seizure. Tune in to hear an intensely moving and informative discussion on the naughty neurons that cause epilepsy, social myths about a disease as old as humanity itself and how much effort a hospital team puts in to treat drug-resistant epilepsy! Tune in Produced by Garvit Srivastava Sound mix by Suraj Singh