Seizure types

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…

people who go on to be diagnosed with epilepsy will experience their first seizure between the ages of five and twenty years old, though, in fact, a seizure can happen at any age. Many neurologists and neuroscientists are of the opinion that each person's brain has a threshold above which a fit will be triggered; for people who have epilepsy that threshold can be very low. Epileptic individuals can experience many seizures which cause changes in behaviour, consciousness and attention. This…

Tetrahydrocannabinol or THC; which is one of many extracts from marijuana can cause uncontrollable laughter, increased appetite, daydreaming, pain relief, and slight amnesia from seconds ago (Sides). The plant extract that is known to help with seizures is called Cannabinol or CBD. CBD…

Over a three-week period thirteen patients on the night shift suffered violent seizures that where followed by cardiac and respiratory arrest. Of the thirteen nine of the patients died and the nurses described the patients’ seizures to be similar to grand mal seizures that epileptics suffer. Seizures usually do not occur in cardiac patients. Soon after the cardiac care/ intensive care unit Community Hospital of the Valleys closed and the…

Epilepsy (seizures) has become a growing concern in many dog breeds today, including Toy Poodles. Epilepsy usually shows up between 2 and 4 years of age. PRA (which stands for progressive retinal atrophy) shows up between 3 and 5 years of age and always progresses…

Induction procedures during VEEG were used only if necessary in three (33.3%)-two with saline solution and one with verbal induction - and not used in others (5/9 [55.5%]). 3.3. Communication Terminology used to communicate was psychogenic nonepileptic seizures in seven; psychogenic nonepileptic events in one and one center does not have a common terminology. Two centers provided an explanation about the term used afer communication. The professional who communicates the diagnosis was the…

it has become one of the most commonly used antiepileptic medications in North America. An extensive amount of careful scientific trials has been done in a great number of patients (Epilepsy Foundation, n.d). It is best used to treat partial-onset seizures, but has value in treating tonic-clonic…