Epilepsy

Epilepsy is a disease of the central nervous system. Out of everyone in the United States, 1 in over 26 people are prone to getting this disease. Before you really know you have epliepsy or go to the hospital you uusally have two unprovoked seziures. The sezuires that you have are caused from an abnormal activity in your brain cells. There are a few symptoms to having a sezuire. A few symptoms are confusion, staring randomly, jerking movements that are not under your control, and loss of awareness

Epilepsy What is it, who has it, what's it caused by Epilepsy is neurological disorder that affects approximately 20,000 to 28,000 people in New Zealand. It involves sudden recurrent episodes of some type of sensory disturbance most commonly a charge ‘surge’ of electrical impulse through the neurons causing loss of consciousness, convulsions often called seizures. There are many different types of seizures depending on the location and severity of the fault in the brain. Epilepsy can develop in

morning/afternoon class and Mrs Carr today I’ll be talking to you about Epilepsy. Epilepsy is when a sequence of seizures (brain and nerve interruptions occur making senses and body movements impossible) occur. A seizure lasts for normally 1-3 minutes any longer are fatal. Not all seizures are from epilepsy, some are only once, or a sign of other health issues. This is such as fever, diabetes, heart conditions and alcohol starvation. Epilepsy was found in the East in the medieval times but others were found

Epilepsy is a condition in which a person has two or more seizures affecting a variety of mental and physical functions. Epilepsy is one of the oldest conditions of the human race. Epilepsy Awareness is important because Epilepsy is a widely misunderstood disorder. The reason that Epilepsy has been misunderstood has been mainly due to research not being conducted until the middle of the nineteenth century. There are six main types of seizures and many treatments that can assist an epileptic patient

3) Epilepsy is a complicated neurological disorder that affects the central nervous system, specifically the brain. It can be caused by the over-excitation of neurons, which occurs when the electrical activity is irregular or when two or more unprovoked seizures arise. The left hemisphere communicates to the right hemisphere by sending signals in order to let it know what’s going on (vice versa). In epilepsy, the signal goes back and forth, resulting in a positive feedback. Positive feedback is a

Epilepsy is a disorder where nerve cell activity in the brain becomes disturbed. This activity causes sporadic electrical “storms” in the brain called seizures. During seizures, people experience unusual behavior and symptoms. There are two major types of epilepsy, idiopathic/cryptogenic, symptomatic. Both of these have different causes and affect the body and mind in particular ways. Idiopathic epilepsy is commonly associated with cryptogenic because they are very similar. However, there

Epilepsy is a general term for any brain disorder that causes unpredictable regular seizures. These seizures as caused by a disturbance in the brain’s electrical activity. It is considered a chronic neurological disorder, the fourth most common in the world. There were around 3.4 million people reported as having epilepsy in the United States in 2015 with 470,000 of those being children (CDC, 2017). This is about 1.2% of the population in the United States (CDC, 2017). There are about 50 million

Epilepsy. In epilepsy, the grand mal seizure often begins with a sudden loss of consciousness and fall to the ground. The initial motor signs are a brief flexion of the trunk, an opening of the mouth and eyelids, and upward deviation of the eyes. The arms are elevated and abducted, the elbows semiflexed, and the hands pronated. These are followed by a more protracted extension phase, involving first the back and neck, then the arms and legs. There may be piercing cry as the whole musculature is seized

Each year, one in one hundred people in the United State develop epilepsy, but there is a less common type of epilepsy. It’s called febrile-infection related epileptic syndrome, more commonly known as FIRES. I happen to know one of the few people who have this type of epilepsy. Her name is Kailee, and she goes to my brother’s school. She was even in some of his classes. This type of epilepsy occurs in school-aged children between the ages of six and seventeen (“What is FIRES?”). It starts with a

Epilepsy is a chronic neurologic disorder characterized by recurrent seizures, brought on by excessive excitability of neurons in the brain. A seizure is divided into two broad categories: partial and generalized. Symptoms can range from brief periods of unconsciousness to violent convulsions. Epilepsy is initiated by synchronous, high-frequency discharge from a group of hyperexcitable neurons called a focus. A focus may result from several causes, including congenital defects, hypoxia at birth,