Understand the research
Dementia-Seizure Subtype Atlas
Explore the evidence across five dementia types. Read about clinical events and EEG findings, with sources, limitations, and unanswered questions alongside the findings.
Explore the atlasSeizure clarity in dementia
Seizures in dementia can be difficult to recognize. The details that matter are often not captured.
Seagull Health helps people and organizations capture what was observed, compare the full pattern with dementia-seizure research, and bring a clearer account to the people responsible for what happens next.
Choose where to start
Understand the research
Explore seizure evidence across five dementia types.
Explore the Subtype Atlas
Describe a reported episode
Answer structured questions and receive a free, evidence-linked educational report.
Start a free DSEF evaluation
Bring this intelligence into your organization
Adapt DSEF for a platform, service, or program.
Explore DSEF for Organizations
Start with your question
Four ways to use Seagull.
Describe one episode
DSEF
Use the free educational evaluation to answer structured questions about a reported episode and see how the full pattern compares with published research. The report includes supporting sources and cannot determine whether an event was a seizure.
Start a free DSEF evaluationExplore an organizational use
DSEF for Organizations
License and customize DSEF for your platform, service, or program. Adapt responses and summaries to your audience, with supporting evidence and limitations preserved.
Explore the organizational offerTrain a team
Recognizing Possible Seizures in Dementia
A ready-to-run workshop that teaches staff to notice an unusual episode, write down what they actually saw, and route it to the right person, across five dementia types. Free to work through; a $199 facilitator license to lead it.
Open the workshopWhy this matters
A new episode deserves a clear description.
A pause in speech, a change in response, or an unusual movement can be hard to interpret when someone is living with dementia. Seizures are one possible explanation. Illness, fainting, medication effects, sleep, and dementia-related changes can also matter.
A memory-clinic study found that some subtle seizure events had been noticed but attributed to dementia. Its findings show a recognition problem in that setting; they do not establish the cause of any one person's episode.
From an observation to a useful account
Keep the details of the episode together.
Illustrative example. This describes an invented episode and is not a DSEF result.
What someone noticed
“She stopped talking and stared ahead.”
That observation starts the account. Timing, responsiveness, recovery, and what remains unknown give it context.
An account with more detail
“During lunch, she stopped speaking and stared ahead. She did not answer two questions for about 40 seconds. Then she resumed speaking. A similar episode was noticed yesterday.”
This account preserves what happened without assigning a cause. Whether she returned fully to her usual state remains a question to clarify.
DSEF helps organize a reported episode and its context into an educational summary. See how DSEF works →
DSEF for Organizations
Add dementia-seizure understanding to your existing offering.
Help your users explore possible seizure-related episodes in people with dementia. License and customize DSEF to complement your platform, service, or program.
Tailor the wording, level of detail, and information included in responses and summaries while preserving supporting evidence and limitations.
How the frameworks connect
Shared language, evidence, and follow-through.
DSS, DSEF, and SeizureSafe support Seagull's work with reported episodes. The atlas provides a separate place to explore dementia-specific research.
Describe the observations
DSS Framework
The Dementia Seizure Spectrum™ provides a shared language for describing what was observed across seizure events and changes in movement, awareness, and behavior without deciding the cause.
Explore DSS →Explore the reported pattern
DSEF
The Dementia Seizure Evaluation Framework brings the reported observations together, shows when important information is missing, and compares the full pattern with published research while keeping sources and limitations visible.
Explore DSEF →Support follow-through
SeizureSafe™
SeizureSafe™ connects that structured understanding to practical guidance for recognition, immediate response, documentation, and advocacy. Clinical decisions and emergency action remain with qualified professionals and local care pathways.
Explore SeizureSafe →