The foundation's programs aim to "ensure that people with seizures are able to participate in all life experiences; and to prevent, control and cure epilepsy through research, education, advocacy and services."
The mission of the Foundation in 2012 was to "stop seizures and SUDEP, find a cure and overcome the challenges created by epilepsy through efforts including education, advocacy and research to accelerate ideas into therapies".
[5] JavaScript code and flashing computer animations were posted to trigger migraine headaches and seizures in people with photosensitive or pattern-sensitive epilepsy.
Members of the epilepsy forum claimed they had found a thread in which the attack was being planned at 7chan.org, an imageboard that has been described as a stronghold for Anonymous.
[7] During an interview with CNN, Scientologist Tommy Davis accused Anonymous of hacking into the Epilepsy Foundation website to make it display imagery intended to cause epileptic seizures.
At the time of publication, representatives of four pharmaceutical companies sat on the Epilepsy Foundation's board, as did Billy Tauzin, head of PhRMA, which gave $25,000 to $49,999.
Nonetheless, they recommended that doctors be required to give permission to switch their patients' prescriptions to generic drugs.
Gary Buehler, at the time the director of the FDA's office of generic drugs, said, "The only way you can somehow pin this down is to do a good study.