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identifying if the event was a seizure or a non epileptic event. There are a number of different types of…

severe cases memory disturbances. Due to the fact that it involves the auditory cortex, the epileptic patiens are often extremely sensitive to different voices and noises, they get tense from the various forms of rowdiness. As we have already seen, seizures can be caused by different factors, but there are several common triggers, such as: flashing lights or lack of sleep. Temporal lobe epilepsy The temporal lobe epilepsy is often associated with memory disfunctions, because hippocampus is one…

Case 3 Sequence 2: Laforin Isoform X4 (EPM2A) Lafora progressive myoclonus epilepsy is a brain disorder which results in frequent seizures along with a degeneration of intellectual function (“What is Lafora,” 2009). This is the worst teenage-onset progressive epilepsy. Progressive epilepsy means a condition that affects the central nervous system and grows increasingly worse over time (“Progressive Myoclonus Epilepsy”). The gene EPM2A, which provides instructions for creating the protein…

status epilepticus. Status epilepticus (SE) is defined as, “An epileptic seizure that lasts more than 30 minutes; a constant or near-constant state of having seizures. Status epilepticus is a health crisis, and requires immediate treatment.” (Medicinenet.com) The adolescent boy had undergone a corpus callostomy, various drug therapies, and even had tried the ketogenic diet but none of these treatments decreased his seizure activity on a long term basis. After about a week in the…

are hereditary, some are caused through serious head injury’s causing Epilepsy. Others are caused through fever’s, Fever’s that strike up to 102.2 degrees causing your body to have convulsions. I was 13 year’s old and my brother had his 1st febrile seizure. He was no more than 8 months old. This was honestly the scariest day of my life. My brother Xavier and I are 13 years apart. I know it’s a big age difference, it was a whole new beginning for my mother and me. It had just been us two for a…

Introduction Matthew 17:15-16 states, “Lord, have mercy on my son. He has seizures and suffers terribly. He often falls into the fire or into the water. So I brought him to your disciples, but they couldn’t heal him” (NLT). Epilepsy is a lifelong disorder that causes seizures. It affects approximately sixty-five million people across the world. Of that sixty-five million, three million people reside in the United States. Epilepsy is the fourth most prevalent neurologic disorder in the world…

to Galtrey, Mula, & Cock, people with epilepsy have reported that stress is their most common trigger for seizures. Some people even believe that stress is what causes their epilepsy in the first place. In previous studies, 10-83% of people with epilepsy from the UK, USA, Australia, Singapore, Brazil, and Scandinavia all identified stress as a major trigger. There are also studies of seizures and epilepsy that accompany traumatic events. One example of this being a study on children with…

It has no age, racial, social class, national or geographic boundaries” World Health Organization (WHO). Seizures typically last a few seconds to a few minutes; however, the postictal period (where the level of awareness gradually improves) can last from seconds to hours. According to Robert S. Fisher, for a seizure to be considered epilepsy you must have two or more, or at least one seizure with a high chance of another. Epilepsy is a brain disorder that has several distinctive categories,…

Symptom variations depend on the kind of seizure and are the only visible symptom of epilepsy. There are several distinct types of seizures, and symptoms of each type can affect one person in a way that is different from the next. Seizures typically last from a few seconds to a few minutes. You may be alert during the seizure or lose consciousness. You may not remember what happened during the seizure or may not even realize you had a seizure. Seizures that make you fall to the ground or make…

distribution, and small unregulated batches grown and used inside the home. In many cases medical marijuana is more beneficial than other medical treatments. For many kids under age ten suffering grand mal seizures it is hard to walk, talk, and even eat, marijuana has been proven to reduce those grand mal seizures. In the case of the federal government what is okay for soldiers coming back with PTSD, is marijuana. In the case of PTSD marijuana acts better than anti-depressants which often lead…