The lack of funds for clinical epilepsy research in the UK.

This is a survey of annual research funding for clinical epilepsy projects from major medical charities and the MRC from 1987 to 1989 (taking the latest available annual figures). The MRC provided between 70,000 pounds and 166,000 pounds, the medical charities 173,000 pounds, and the epilepsy charity 84,000 pounds. This equates to between 0.90 pounds and 1.2 pounds per person with epilepsy in the UK per year, which compares unfavorably with funding for other conditions, and by international comparison. There is serious underfunding of epilepsy research in the UK.