Taking action on climate change: Testimonials and position statement from the International League Against Epilepsy Climate Change Commission

Angel Aledo-Serrano; Giulia Battaglia; Stephen Blenkinsop; Norman Delanty; Hasnaa M. Elbendary; Sara Eyal; Alla Guekht; Medine I. Gulcebi; David C. Henshall; Michael S. Hildebrand; Bernadette Macrohon; Priyanka Madaan; Janet Mifsud; James D. Mills; Kathryn Hodgson Neill; Alessia Romagnolo; Annamaria Vezzani; Sanjay M. Sisodiya

doi:10.1016/j.seizure.2023.02.003

Taking action on climate change: Testimonials and position statement from the International League Against Epilepsy Climate Change Commission

Angel Aledo-Serrano, Giulia Battaglia, Stephen Blenkinsop, Norman Delanty, Hasnaa M. Elbendary, Sara Eyal, Alla Guekht, Medine I. Gulcebi, David C. Henshall, Michael S. Hildebrand, Bernadette Macrohon, Priyanka Madaan, Janet Mifsud, James D. Mills, Kathryn Hodgson Neill, Alessia Romagnolo, Annamaria Vezzani, Sanjay M. Sisodiya^*

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Abstract

The release of the 2021 Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) report makes clear that human activities have resulted in significant alterations in global climate. There is no doubt that climate change is upon us; chronic global warming has been punctuated by more frequent extreme weather events. Humanity will have to mitigate climate change and adapt to these changing conditions or face dire consequences. One under-appreciated aspect of this global crisis is its impact on healthcare, particularly people with epilepsy and temperature-sensitive seizures. As members of the inaugural International League Against Epilepsy (ILAE) Climate Change Commission, we recount the personal motivations that have led each team member to decide to take action, in the hope that our journeys as ordinary clinicians and scientists will help persuade others that they too can act to foster change within their spheres of influence.

Original language	American English
Pages (from-to)	68-75
Number of pages	8
Journal	Seizure : the journal of the British Epilepsy Association
Volume	106
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.seizure.2023.02.003
State	Published - Mar 2023

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Funding Information:
We would like to thank the photographers, Kurt Arrigo, Catherine Lane, Natalia Erenburg, and Gary Cranitch courtesy of Great Barrier Reef Foundation and our authors, Annamaria Vezzani, Bernadette Macrohon, Sanjay Sisodiya, Janet Mifsud, Sara Eyal, David C Henshall, Michael Hildebrand, and Priyanka Madaan for the permission to use their valuable photos.

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© 2023 British Epilepsy Association

Keywords

Epilepsy
Global crisis
Global warming
Neurology
Seizure

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Aledo-Serrano, A., Battaglia, G., Blenkinsop, S., Delanty, N., Elbendary, H. M., Eyal, S., Guekht, A., Gulcebi, M. I., Henshall, D. C., Hildebrand, M. S., Macrohon, B., Madaan, P., Mifsud, J., Mills, J. D., Neill, K. H., Romagnolo, A., Vezzani, A., & Sisodiya, S. M. (2023). Taking action on climate change: Testimonials and position statement from the International League Against Epilepsy Climate Change Commission. Seizure : the journal of the British Epilepsy Association, 106, 68-75. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.seizure.2023.02.003

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Taking action on climate change: Testimonials and position statement from the International League Against Epilepsy Climate Change Commission

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