Fremgen, she describes a case study, "The case of Janet K. and Epilepsy". Janet was a 27-year-old nursing graduate. From a very young age, she was diagnosed with epilepsy. Epilepsy is a neurological disorder which causes seizures (Mayo Clinic, 2017). As a result of her diagnosis, she suffered from seizures.…
• Focal seizures without losing conscious (simple focal seizures): These seizures don't make you lose consciousness. They may change emotions or alter things’ appearance, smell, feel, taste or sound. They may also conclude in involuntary muscle spasms in your arms, or legs, and sudden sensory symptoms such as feeling tingly, dizzy, or seeing flashing lights. (Neurology and Neurosurgery, John Hopkins…
came in the office today for her 3 month checkup with Dr. Vincent Smith. While Dr. Smith was in the room with the patient she had a seizure. After the seizer was over the patient was in stable condition. Dr. Smith advises the patient, she should not drive home and to have someone come pick her up. The patient insisted she did not have anyone but will get a friend to check on her this evening.…
When you start getting quoted for auto insurance in Maitland, it's important to know the factors used by insurance companies. Several medical conditions could affect your premiums in a negative way. By knowing about them, you can counteract the cost of insurance in other ways. Diabetes If you have diabetes, you run the risk of having hypoglycemic episodes.…
There are multiple different kinds of seizures. The kind I have is absent seizures. That is where you just stare into space and don’t answer to anyone. There is another kind of seizure called epilepsy seizure. That is where you fall on the ground shaking.…
Epilepsy and the Oral Cavity Epilepsy is a central nervous system disorder (neurological disorder) in which nerve cell activity in the brain becomes disrupted, causing seizures or periods of unusual behavior, sensations and sometimes loss of consciousness (MayoClinic). Diagnosis of epilepsy is not an easy task as it comes in many forms and can range anywhere from a blank stare to full body convulsions, but once it is diagnosed, epilepsy can often be treated with medication and the patient can live a normal life. One thing that must be noted is that these medications can have side effects that are detrimental to the oral cavity.…
After the MRI, we were sent to a neurologist at Unity Point. It turned out that I had my first seizure and it wasn’t my last. The doctor said I would have to live with Epilepsy for the rest of my life. How did I react? I was scared of what people would say if I told them.…
In both clinical observation and animal models, infants have experienced seizures a period of hours after an initial asphyxia event, the effect that these seizures have in terms of neural damage however, is not known. Meldrum (1999) seizures as the sudden simultaneous firing of cells in a particular part of the brain. This is shown as high amplitude/high frequency EEG waves; and could cause physical convulsions of the body. The effect to the brain is a lot more wide spread with consequences that occur both during and for some time after the seizure activity. A paper by Fernandes, Dube, Boyet, Marescaux and Nehlig (1999) explained that knowing how the brain would react to an epileptic event after a period of asphyxia at one point in development,…
Alverti, A. (2011). Respiratory and leg muscles perceived exertion during exercise at altitude. Respiratory Physiology and Neurobiology, 177(2), 162-168. DOI: 10.1016/j.resp.2011.03.014. Alverti measured the exertion of the legs and respiratory muscles in a specific environmental setting.…
Epilepsy or convulsion is defined as the tedious attack of seizure .Seizure means the high frequency abnormal discharge from accumulated of neurons in the cerebral cortex. Benzodiazepine receptors are responsible for the anticonvulsant effect. The anticonvulsants are a various group of pharmaceuticals used in the handling of epileptic seizures. The chemical assortment and different mechanisms of action of anticonvulsants make it challenging to find a communal way of recognizing new drugs. Novel anticonvulsant pharmacores are revealed through conventional screening and/or structure modification rather than a mechanism-driven…
With symptoms and triggers, comes diagnose of Epilepsy seizures may not be completely understood after symptoms. With extensive…
Surgery is also an option for people with medically refractory seizures. The most common procedure is anterior temporal lobectomy. In well-selected cases, 70-80% of patients can become seizure free (Brodie 95). Although epilepsy is a powerful disability radiating through every avenue of a…
When the term epilepsy comes about I associate it with seizures, although there’s a difference between the two. Epilepsy can be defined as a neurological condition that is described by recurrent seizures. Epilepsy is a condition in which is not fully understood, yet there’s a significant amount of research. People that are diagnosed with epilepsy tend to have different type of seizures. Therefore, the occurrence, symptoms, and the type of seizure can differ with every person diagnosed with epilepsy (“Epilepsy”, 2016).…
Epilepsy Disease is a brain disorder. Clusters of nerve cells in the brain signal abnormally. The normal pattern of neuronal activity is disturbed. It causes strange sensations, emotions, and behavior. Sometimes it causes convulsions, muscle spasms, and loss of consciousness.…
I could have died on that cold winter night, but instead, I survived. My life was forever changed after the first grand mal seizure. In a split second, my life was transformed from a typical carefree person to one who had a disability. Since the first seizure, fear of what would happen to me when the next grand mal would occur was a constant worry in my life.…