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COM·​MO·​TION: FROM THE LATIN, “COM”, MEANING ALL TOGETHER & “MOTIO” MEANING MOVEMENT

ComMotion – Community in Motion builds community and improves well being through adaptive and inclusive movement.  

We provide people of all walks of life the opportunity to engage in fun activities that will stimulate the mind, body and soul.  Our unique multi-sensory programs have reached, inspired, and moved more than 35,000 people from around the world.

Living with Epilepsy, Expressing Life through Art

After years of living with intractable seizures, Sarah became a candidate for brain surgery. After her life-saving surgery, she shares her visual journey of what it was like living with epilepsy, her experience with the burden of normality, long-term adjustment, and re-integration.

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Inspirational Women In Hollywood: How Sandra Cruze Of House Theater Is Helping To Shake Up The Entertainment Industry

Exhibiting Strength: How One Neurologist is championing artists living with epilepsy

As a neurologist, Julie Thompson-Dobkin, DO, never thought her work and personal life would become so intertwined. But in 2005, everything changed….

Meditation Changes Your Brain. Here’s How.

It’s Mental Health Awareness Month. If you’re one of the 32 percent of US adults who experienced symptoms of anxiety or depression last year, your doctor or mental health care provider may have recommended you learn meditation to help manage your stress. But how exactly does this age-old practice change the brain? Neuroscientist Richard Davidson, PhD ’76, the William James and Vilas Professor of Psychology and Psychiatry at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, discusses his decades of research on meditation—enabled in part by a collaboration with the Dalai Lama—and dispels myths about how it works and when, where, and how it can be done.

Sacred lives: An Account of the history, cultural associations and social impact of epilepsy.

Sacred Lives tells the history of epilepsy from ancient times, when the condition was felt to be sacred, to the present day. The initial chapters deal with the early myths and mystique that surrounded it and led to persecution, demonization, incarceration and social rejection. It is only by the nineteenth century that epilepsy becomes accepted by physicians as a physical condition and not a manifestation of madness or the result of a dangerous contagion. The first pioneers of scientific advancement, along with their contributions, are described along with the often serendipitous discovery of effective drug and surgical treatments.