Epilepsy
Definition
Epilepsy is a seizure disorder. A seizure is an event that involves loss of consciousness and motor (muscular) control. A person with a seizure disorder often experiences repetitiv...
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Epilepsy
Epilepsy is a disease of abnormal brain activity that causes recurrent seizures. Seizures are sudden, brief episodes of altered states of consciousness, often accompanied by spasmodic or unus...
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Epilepsy
Epilepsy is a disease of abnormal brain activity that causes recurrent seizures. Seizures are sudden, brief episodes of altered states of consciousness, often accompanied by spasmodic or unus...
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Epilepsy
A condition affecting people regardless of age, sex, or race, where a pattern of recurring malfunctioning of the brain is present.
Epilepsy, from the Greek word for seizure, is a recurrent de...
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Having a seizure can change a person's life. It can mean endless hospital visits, being probed with needles and taking endless amounts of medication. How do I know? I've lived through it. I was d...
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Every year, approximately one hundred thousand people develop Epilepsy in the United States (Weaver 7), making it the second most common neurological disorder after a stroke (The Epilepsy Foundation o...
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Pediatric epilepsy is a fairly new study in pediatrics, but what is epilepsy"
Epilepsy is a neurological condition which affects the nervous system, also known as a "seizure syndrome." Usually you ...
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Epilepsy
Epilepsy is not what you think. It is a complicated disease, a disease that doesn't just affect one type of person or age. Over fifty million men, women, and children cope with this disea...
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Living with Epilepsy
The person suddenly cries out, loses consciousness, falls to the ground, and foams at the mouth. Their arms and legs jerk convulsively for several minutes. What would your reacti...
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Survivors of traumatic brain injuries _ from car-crash victims to soldiers wounded in Iraq _ face an extra hurdle as they recover: Thousands of them will develop epilepsy months or years later. The...
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The research is persuasive: When drugs don't completely control epilepsy, surgery often can _ and the sooner it's tried, the better.Yet while children are going under the knife at younger ages, epi...
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The research is persuasive: When drugs do not completely control epilepsy, surgery often can _ and the sooner it is tried, the better.Yet while children are having surgery at younger ages, epilepsy...
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Epilepsy drugs used by millions of people may increase the risk of suicidal thoughts or behavior, the Food and Drug Administration warned Thursday in an alert to doctors.The FDA analyzed almost 200...
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Epilepsy drugs used by millions of people may increase the risk of suicidal thoughts or behavior, the Food and Drug Administration warned Thursday in an alert to doctors.The FDA analyzed almost 200...
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - People taking epilepsy drugs
may face higher risks of suicidal thoughts and actions and
their behavior should be closely watched, U.S. health officials
warned Thursday. The ...
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A genetic test can tell if
patients of Asian ancestry are more likely to develop a
life-threatening skin reaction to certain drugs that treat
epilepsy and other conditions, ...
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Epilepsy drugs used by millions of people may increase the risk of suicidal thoughts or behavior, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration warned in an alert to doctors Thursday.The FDA analyzed almos...
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Survivors of traumatic brain injuries _ from car-crash victims to soldiers wounded in Iraq _ face an extra hurdle as they recover: Thousands of them will develop epilepsy months or years later.The ...
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Now that surgeons have operated on Stacey Gayle's brain, her favorite musician no longer makes her ill. Four years after being diagnosed with epilepsy, Gayle recently underwent brain surgery at Lon...
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