Representing all people in West Berkshire affected by a neurological condition
We are not authorised to provide clinical information or advice to patients with neurological conditions or their carers but we have listed all known national and local peer support groups below and on the Information page we list a selection of publicly available relevant articles.
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Contact details of local and national support groups for specific neurological conditions:
Estimates of incidence are conservatively 12 per 100,000 per year. Based on this, around 8,000 new diagnoses of FND are made per year in the UK and around 50,000–100,000 people have it in the community.
Dystonia UK can be contacted here
The local support group can contacted here or by email at dysberksgroup@yahoo.co.uk
There are over half a million people with epilepsy in the UK, so around 1 in 100 people.
The lifetime prevalence of migraine has been reported as 33% in women and 13% in men though before puberty migraine frequency is the same in both sexes. These figures are estimates.
A recent survey of about 4,000 adults in England reported that 7.6% of males and 18.3% of females had migraine within the last year.
The Migraine Trust can be contacted here
Six people are diagnosed with MND every day in the UK. There are around 5,000 adults with MND in the UK at any one time. It can affect any adult at any age. Most people are diagnosed over the age of 50. Men are at higher risk than women.
More than 130,000 people in the UK have MS. In the UK people are most likely to find out they have MS in their thirties, forties and fifties. But the first signs of MS often start years earlier. Many people notice their first symptoms years before they get their diagnosis.
MS affects almost three times as many women as men. People from many different ethnic backgrounds can get MS. Read the latest statistics on MS in the UK.
Around 153,000 people live with Parkinson’s in the UK. It is the fastest growing neurological condition in the world.
The Reading branch can be contacted here
The Newbury branch can be contacted here
There is no dedicated Wokingham branch, but many Wokingham residents attend Reading Branch events (some of which are based in Wokingham), or visit the nearby Bracknell Branch, which can be contacted here
Parkinsons UK can be contacted here
There are around 100,000 strokes every year in the UK. The incidence of first-ever transient ischaemic attack (TIA) is approximately 50 per 100,000 people per year.In the UK there are approximately 1.3 million people living with stroke.