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    employment; however she is fearful of her safety and problems with her memory during and after a workplace seizure. In ensuring her safety in the workplace she can do things like designate a person to respond to her emergencies, keep her area/aisles clear of clutter, and make a plan of action for others to determine how to respond/react when she has a seizure on the job. After her seizures she experiences brief memory deficits, which could possibly affect her ability to complete tasks, remember…

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    Dog Service Dog Essay

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    blood sugar they will have a hard time using their motor skills. This requires them to get up to get something to bring their sugar up and if they can't it will cause damage or harm. Low blood sugar can cause the diabetics to become sleepy, or have seizures. When they become sleepy than can fall into a coma. When the diabetics fall asleep, the dogs will lick their face until they come to. If the blood sugars become high than it can cause the diabetics harm, by damaging their kidneys or their…

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    I was eight, there was a single event that changed my life, identity, interests, struggles, and successes. This one event led to many more. In the fall of 2007, I had my first seizure, the first of many. It took us months to get a diagnosis of epilepsy, of complex-partial seizures. When someone has a complex-partial seizure, they are neither conscious nor unconscious; they’re in between, both aware and unaware at the same time. They typically do some kind of small motion; picking at clothes,…

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    by frequent seizure activity; individuals diagnosed with epilepsy have excessive, uncontrolled, electrical discharge of neurons within the brain that can cause temporary loss of consciousness, jerking, muscle rigidity, automatisms, and even complete loss of muscle tone. There exist several different types of seizures; they are divided into two different categories, generalized (both hemispheres of the brain are involved) or partial (only one hemisphere is involved). Tonic-Clonic seizures involve…

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    The Importance Of Seizures

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    Have you ever seen someone have a seizure and thought to yourself what causes them? Well I have my daughter has them she started having them about Four years ago. I didn’t know anything about them what caused them or what do I do to help her. We was out of town when she had her first one. I didn’t see how she had it or what happen I was out in the hall talking to some friends and one of the friends’ kids came out of the room and said “something has happened to Veronica and we don’t know what…

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    Epilepsy

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    Epilepsy is a chronic neurological disorder affecting all ages. Epileptic seizures occur as a brain insult that results in one of three forms. Seizures can be systemic, toxic or metabolic. Epilepsy has been defined as brain disorder characterized by enduring predisposition to generate seizures, by the neurobiological, cognitive, psychological and social consequences of the condition. An epileptic seizure is defined as a transient event of signs and symptoms due to abnormal excessive neuronal…

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    Apa Paper On Epilepsy

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    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. An epileptic seizure…

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    Services include: resource center with educational materials for loan, support groups, and epilepsy awareness programs. http://www.arkansasepilepsy.com/ FACES (Finding a Cure for Epilepsy and Seizures) The mission of FACES is to improve the quality of life for all those affected by epilepsy and seizures. FACES is affiliated with NYU Langone Medical Center and its Comprehensive Epilepsy Center. FACES funds research to improve epilepsy care, advances new therapies, and fosters a supportive…

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    Epilepsy Research Paper

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    the brain is disturbed, causing seizures. To most people a seizure is when a person’s muscles contract and they fall to the ground, their muscles spasming, making their whole body shake. In reality, studies have shown that there are many different types of seizures. Doctors have classified seizures into two different groups; generalized and focal. A focal seizure is caused when there is abnormal activity in just one area of your brain. A person can have a focal seizure without loss of…

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    Epilepsy Research Paper

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    Epilepsy is a neurological disorder that causes seizures, and it affects approximately 1.5% of the population (CDC). The roots of this disorder can be traced back to almost 2,000 B.C, beginning with texts from the Assyrian and the Babylonian empires (Highlights). Written in approximately 400 BC, “On the Sacred Disease” was a work by the Hippocratic Corpus in which doubt was cast on epilepsy as a supernatural or divine disorder, and epilepsy was first remarked as a natural and earthly disorder…

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