Seizure types

thus triggering seizures, unusual behavior, odd symptoms and abnormal sensations. Another name for epilepsy is seizure. Epilepsy can start within a person at any age but is more common in young children and the elderly. According to Mayo Clinic, “About 1 in 26 people in the United States will develop a seizure disorder. Nearly 10 percent of individuals may have a single unprovoked seizure. However, a single seizure doesn't mean you have epilepsy. At least two unprovoked seizures are generally…

PATHOPHYSIOLOGY Epilepsy is a common neurological disorder known to be reoccurring seizures that can last from a few seconds to several minutes. It is thought to affect approximately 275000 people throughout Australia and 2/3 of people do not know the cause of this. There are many causes such as brain tumours or infections like meningitis that can cause an epileptic fit. In some people there is no specific cause. When people have epileptic fits they are able to live relatively normal lives.…

Introduction Epilepsy is known as Apasmara: apa, means negation or loss of; smara, means recollection or consciousness. Epilepsy known form thousands of years but came forward past hundred years. It was known from the Babylonians and Greeks also have records of epilepsy and they represent as Sacred Disease21. In India concept of epilepsy is known from ancient Indian medicine and it was developed during the Vedic period of .In the Ayurvedic literature of Charaka Samhita epilepsy is known…

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…

kind of certain type of seizure. There are hundreds types of seizure but Grand Mals are one of the most uncontrollable types of seizure. A few things that I am going to asking you to think about are symptoms, Causes, risk factors, the damaging it can do to your brain, and complications. Thinking about these things will open your mind to what Grand Mals really are. First, lets start with the symptoms you will have before having a Grand Mal. Grand Mals have to phases to the seizure. People…

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,…

brain disorder in which you have a tendency to trigger seizures. It occurs when there is a abnormal or excessive amount of electrical activity in the brain, and is usually diagnosed after a person has two or more seizures that are not caused by medical conditions. Epilepsy is very common in society today. 1 in 26 people will develop epilepsy in their lifetime and 65 million people already have epilepsy worldwide. After any type of epileptic seizure episodes of sensory disturbances, loss of…

Many people associate epilepsy and seizures with violent movements with muscle contractions, but there are actually many types of seizures that one can have. As stated by the Mayo Clinic (2015), “Epilepsy is a chronic disorder of the central nervous system in which nerve activity in the brain becomes disrupted, causing seizures or periods of unusual behaviour, sensations, and sometimes loss of consciousness” (Para. 16). Epileptic seizures are generally caused by abnormalities in the brain that…

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…

disorders characterized by recurrent seizure which is a brief period of uncontrolled involuntary shaking. It may be partial, involving only one part of the body, or generalized, involving the entire body, and they may be accompanied by loss of consciousness and loss of control of bowel or bladder function. In some case it is unclassified. Patient with epilepsy may continue to experience any of the above types of seizure while getting AEDs treatment(1, 2).Partial seizure also further classified…