Epilepsy Journal: Insights & Strategies - Editorial Board Members Needed

Epi_help, I would be interested.  I am a patient.  I worked in the field as a Neurodiagnostic Tech.  I have had experience on both sides of the story.  I am now an at home mom dealing w/ seizures and on a drug study now.  I also deal w/  not driving.   Familiar w/ broken limbs.  Know the importance of having a friend to talk to when things are going rotten!  I have a VNS.  I have had 2 surgeries.  I worked at UCLA and now live on the East Coast and have a family member that works at the FDA.  I would love to be part of  your group!  I have a teenager and a pre-teen and dealt w/ the fear of pregnancy etc.   Dealt w/ status, multiple times, I could go on, including toxicity.  I like to hear what other people go thru it always helps me! When I was at UCLA I worked in research in Neurology, specializing in drug studies, and diagnosis of seizures. I went into dementia research my last 5 years, dealing w/ reviewing MRI's and CT comparisons w/ diagnosis of pre-dementia work-ups.  Our dept. wanted to verify via EEG and MRI or CT if  it w/ be a dementia in the future. We did a family work-up and we even did twins.  It was an interesting job.   I did a lot of library work in research of this.  We compared it w/ Psychology and Neurology.  We also worked w/ mini-mental states w/ patients yearly.  We compared the study after 3 years and noted that there was some interesting factors and my boss wrote many papers thanks to all of our work in the library, working w/ patients , giving the patients mini-mental states.  It really did help.  We noted the background of pre-Alzheimer had subtle slowing in the EEG.  The multi-infarct Dementia had MRI, and somes mini-mental states were  sometimes off.   In the 4th year we reviewed PET scans at one point which started to show abn.  on the Alheimer's. too in the posterior  portion of the brain. It showed other things too.  I found it quite interesting to be the quinea pig doing a little of everything.    The doctor trusted my work but unfortunately my pregnancy and seizures did not mix. Noting the change recently I have been wanting to go back to work and this would be a good stepping stone for me.  I would like to start working on searching for things and helping people.  I am thinking of going back into a University location but it has been a while and this would be great for me, there is a lot going on and a lot of new medication being reviewed right now !  WOW!  Not like the old days, as my mom would say!   Thanks, Toni