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    Essay on Epilepsy

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    olds at 30%. The least amount of first time seizures comes from the forty plus age group. (According to EFA publications) Over 2.5 million people suffer from epilepsy. The international league against epilepsy describes a seizure as an alternative term for "epileptic attack". Seizures vary in there length and severity. A "tonic-clonic" seizure can last for one to seven minutes. " Absence seizures usually last for a few seconds. However, complex partial seizure" may last for thirty seconds or two

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    system disorder in which nerve cell activity in the brain becomes disrupted, causing seizures or periods of unusual behavior, sensations and sometimes loss of consciousness. Epilepsy also known as seizures is a brain disorder involving repeated, spontaneous seizures of any type. Epilepsy is not a single disorder but rather a wide spectrum of problems. What all types of epilepsy share are recurrent, unprovoked seizures caused by an uncontrolled electrical discharge from nerve cells in the cerebral cortex

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    Epilepsy Myths

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    Flashing lights trigger epileptic seizures. Not quite. Epileptic seizures triggered by a sensitivity to light, or photosensitivity, is known as photosensitive epilepsy. Photosensitive epilepsy is rare. About 3 percent only of people living with epilepsy

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    Seizures or epilepsy are brain disorders where the person has repeated convulsions over a period of time. They’re episodes of disturbed brain activity that cause changes in attention and behavior. Seizures are considered the most common observed neurological dysfunction in children. They are very sudden intermittent episodes of altered consciousness lasting seconds to minutes and include involuntary tonic (stiffening of muscles) and clonic (altering contraction and relaxation of muscles) movements

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    Seizure disorder affects 65 million people worldwide. The prevalence of active cases of epilepsy vary between high-income and low-income countries likely due to differences in risk factors. High-income countries have a prevalence of 5-8 per 1000 in a population, while low-income countries have a prevalence of 10 per 1000. The risk factors that cause this discrepancy are assumed to be infections and inadequate care during and after pregnancy. There is also a vast difference in epilepsy mortality rates

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    What is Epilepsy?

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    recurrent seizures. Seizures can occur in children and adults of any age. There are around 50 million people in the world who has the disorder. Individuals in developing countries are at a higher risk for developing the disorder. Seizures occur due to hyper-excitability and hyper-synchronization of neurons. Action potential transmits messages and it leads to depolarization. When neurons are uncontrollably depolarizes because of hyper-excitability due to too little inhibition, it cause a seizure. Seizures

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    have already learned about seizures with the pediatric population in class. The scenario did catch me off guared because I wasn’t expecting him to seize, since he had done so prior. I went into the scenario thinking I was just going to provide observational care. Describe the actions you felt went well in this scenario. I was able to deliver oxygen in a timely manner at the onset of his seizure. I was also able to perform a thorough neurological assessment after his seizures to make

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    A seizure is an instantaneous change in behavior provoked by electrical hyper synchronization of neuronal networks in the cerebral cortex. Most seizures can be categorized as either focal or generalized according to whether the onset of electrical activity involves a focal region of the brain or both sides of the brain simultaneously. The clinical manifestations of seizures vary based on the location of the seizure in the brain and the amount of cortex that is involved. Focal seizures are further

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    Epilepsy Decision Essay

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    that shows how some age groups are more susceptible. Most people who get seizures during their childhood tent to experience a reduction in the intensity and frequency of their seizures, as they are getting older. In many cases the epilepsy will disappear completely. When people think of a seizure, they usually think of someone falling down unconscious and shaking himself. Some people may also throw up or drool. This type of seizure usually lasts for several minutes. When it stops, the person may feel

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    Seizures Research Paper

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    Seizures happen and are not an unusual occurrence in conjunction with several categories of incapacities and unfluctuating with no incapacities, they still will be able to remain existent. Seizures occur as soon as an enormous cluster of neurons discharge at the same time establishing the hyper-activity (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3QLkgA08eIc). Seizures conditions and Seizures two totally unalike conditions. An individual who partakes in a single seizure carry out to partake in a seizure condition

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