Relationship Between Seizure And Cognitive Function

Abstract Several people suffer from grand mal seizures but what if you suffered from another seizure and never knew anything was happening, this is called an absence seizure. When a absent seizure occurs the regular electricity of the brain is interrupted. although absent seizures do not look like much when they occur they still can be as dangerous as grand mal seizures. These absent seizures, formerly called petit mal, have impacted my life and I have several gaps of time missing from me. Absence seizures most likely occur at a young age but are often outgrown by 18. With later onset of absence seizures there is a higher chance that they will stay into adulthood. The signs that someone is having a seizure are very subtle and happen only for a few seconds at a time, so the chances of catching one is small.

Him even surviving this accident and still having mental capacities was a miracle. He could talk fine, intelligent, could read, showed no issues such as being psychotic or emotional unbalanced. But all was not fine with David because when he looked at his own parents would think they were imposters posing as his parents and felt the same way about the house resided in. At times would even think of himself as an imposter. This condition is called Capgras Syndrome or Capgras Delusion, which is a very rare condition. Dr. Ramachandran states this is the strangest case for him, but has answer to what really is causing this condition. He explains, “When we see an object the message goes to the visual centers in the temporal lobes, but it’s a multi-level process after you recognize the object, you also need to respond to the object emotionally, such as when looking at a beautiful picture or your mother’s face the appropriate emotional warmth had to be evoked, like when looking at a lion you would have to be “afraid”, and all this is part of the visual process, but happening in different part of the brain.” After the message regarding the object is identified in the temporal lobes, the message is sent to the

People uneducated about Epilepsy may have confused thoughts on what it really is. People have these "notions," which are partly or entirely not true. So, throughout this research paper, these notions will be proven untrue, mostly by factual information given by

Seizure disorders, according to the Mayo Clinic (2015), affect approximately 1 in 26 people in the United States. Persistent, or chronic, seizures result from a condition called epilepsy, a neurological disorder of the central nervous system. It can affect anyone regardless of age, but is more common during early childhood and after age 60. Given the number of people that seizure disorders, such as epilepsy, affect, it becomes helpful to gain a foundational understanding of the disease, including some of the causes, symptoms, and treatments available.

Seizures are classified into two broad categories primarily generalized and partial seizures. A generalized seizure is characterized by loss of consciousness. There are several sub types of generalized seizure. The first is an absence seizure, this usually consist of brief spells of staring. This type of generalized seizure usually begins in early childhood and diminishes as the child grows older. However, absence seizures may continue until adulthood in some individuals (McKean, 2012). Next, myoclonic seizures are characterized by quick jerking movements. Atonic seizures display a sudden loss of tone and individuals frequently experience injuries related to falls. Generalized tonic clonic seizures display a tonic extension of extremities followed by clonic jerking. There can be variations of this type of seizure activity demonstrating either more tonic motion or clonic (McKean, 2012). Partial seizures initiate when there is an abnormal firing of neurons within the cerebral cortex. This area within the cerebral cortex dictates the symptoms of the seizure activity. A partial seizure can develop into a general seizure if both hemispheres are involved (McKean, 2012). Partial seizures are subdivided into simple and complex. In a complex partial seizure, the individual loses conciseness and has symptoms like lip smacking, staring, picking at clothes, walking around aimlessly. In a simple partial seizure the individual is awake and aware of the episode. The individual may

Epilepsy and Seizure Disorder: All actions and functions travel to the different parts of the brain much like electrical wiring. The “electricity” moves from one area or wired circuit through another by jumping and traveling from area to area much like electricity Due to abnormal electricity and “jumping” seizures can occur. Epilepsy is where these electoral abnormalities are reoccurring often causing many seizures. The Tonic-Clonic or Grand Mal seizures that CM has is from muscles tightening and relaxing very fast due to the abnormal jumping of electricity in the brain. P. 417

In this article I will be talking about and researching the no communicable noncommunicable dieses is Seizures. I picked this dieses because my dad has had them since he was a new born. When he was born they used forests to pull him out of the birth canal and it cause frontal brain damage and made him have Seizures for the rest of this life.

Seizures may arise at any stage of age, but certain periods of life present a higher risk for their emergence. The frequency of seizures in the epileptic population varies widely. Some epileptic experiences only two seizures in a lifetime, and other may suffer 100 of attacks daily. Approximately 25 percent of epileptic experience seizures that are uncontrolled by current forms of

Introduction A sudden attack of neurons is a complex neurological disorder, deemed the term seizure. A seizure is the physical findings or changes in behavior that occur after an episode of abnormal electrical brain activity.1 Epilepsy or seizure disorders affect about 1.8 percent of adults 18 years or older.2

Psychotic Disorder Due to Epilepsy Introduction Epilepsy, which is recognized by "the repetitive and unprovoked occurrence of epileptic seizures," affects more than 40 million people globally (Helmstaedter, n.d., p. 3). In addition, epidemiological studies reveal that a percentage of psychoses are epilepsy-induced. Psychology's attempts to treat patients suffering from psychosis due to epilepsy have necessitated studies of related socio-cultural and environmental factors in which special attention is paid to the relationship(s) between epileptic psychoses and human development/socialization. Furthermore, Psychology's pragmatic treatment of these disorders demands a learned sensitivity to relevant cultural factors and treatment of both epileptic and psychotic issues.

The patient is a 53-year-old African American female who was recently hospitalized from 1/19 -1/22, had a complete workup for seizure disorder, was discharged home and she represented to the ED several times on the 23rd complaining of seizures. She present after having a single isolated seizure which lasted 20 minutes witnessed by her family. She also presented earlier in the evening of the previous evening because she continued to have seizures. She is a history of CVA, hypertension, bipolar disorder. The patient has required intubation in the past. Her laboratory work is essentially unremarkable, phosphatase of 26, AST of 72 and ALT of 75. Dilantin levels are not reported at this point. The case was discussed with Dr. Amr Kahf. I

After an attack with hysterical and epileptic symptoms lasting fifty hours, Louis V.’s memory was erased until just before the incident and his personality changed. Myers wrote, ‘his character had become violent, greedy, and quarrelsome, and his tastes were radically changed.’ The patient’s new personality was different from his personality before his epileptic attack. Myers made the point that hysterical cases were ‘cases where there is no actual traceable injury to either hemisphere.’ In such cases, neither side or hemisphere of the brain has an injury that can explain the changes in personality. There seemed to be great discussion about the differences between the right and left hemisphere of the brain. Myers wrote that in Louis V.’s case, if his right hemisphere were inhibited so he could not act in a natural way, ‘the high qualities of character remain, like the power of speech.’ However, if his left hemisphere were inhibited, Louis V. became sinister, exhibiting physical movements ‘through nervous arrangements which have reached a lower degree of evolution.’ While it was common to find such evolution regression after a cerebral injury, the person would not

When the seizures were over it left him with deep philological reactions leaving him feel as he was omnipotent or as if he was god. It was a suddenly he understood everything about the world and became much more sensitive to everything in it. Dr. Ramachandran states that. “People with these types of seizures is left with a feeling of a religious auras and the question then is why do these patients have these intense religious experiences?” There are many possibilities of which one is that the temporal lobe may someway create many odd kinds of emotions in their brain and this build of bizarre emotions which leaves the patient feeling as if they were chosen by god, to be god on earth. And yet it could be that the temporal lobes are wired to interpret and deal with the worlds emotions. Unlike David’s case where he lacks emotion of the things he views, John’s has overstimulated emotions at what he views, in

Imagine what it would be like to live through unpredictable seizures. At any given moment, having to fight through health problems that have no proven cure. Syndromes of this sort are fatal and can be overwhelming to one 's being. Epilepsy in this case, has effected and changed the lives of millions throughout the world.

Outside of the hospital, Kristi put her knowledge to service when she saved a stranger's life. While waiting to take a flight to Philadelphia for school, Kristi had a unexpected surprise. She had just sat down to eat her food when she heard an unfamiliar noise. Feeling leery about the