Reported is the association of REM behavior disorder (RBD) with late-onset, sleep-related, tonic-clonic seizures in two elderly men. In each patient, RBD preceded the onset of seizures by several years. The authors hypothesize that REM sleep disruption may facilitate seizure occurrence.doi:10.1016/S0033-3182(65)72225-1SzyrynskiVictorPsychosomatics
One of the most common seizure triggers is not getting enough sleep. Since children need more sleep than adults, lack of sleep can affect them more so. Children with Dravet syndrome have more disrupted sleep than children without the condition. Seizures themselves can disrupt the sleep cycle, ...
With the current knowledge, a possible risk for the development of lymphomas, leukaemia or other malignancies in patients treated with a TNF antagonist cannot be excluded. Rare cases of neurological disorders, including seizure disorder, neuritis and peripheral ne...
About 13 % of Ethiopian immigrants and refugees with a mental disorder received services [10]. On the other hand, epilepsy was estimated to account for 0 · 5 % of the global burden of disease, of which, over 85 % occurs in the 49 % of the population living in low- income and ...
[4] In addition, half of the children with AHC may have epilepsy, and these seizures are usually quite distinct from AHC attacks in their manifestations although they may occur simultaneously.[4] If an EEG is recorded during the seizure, it usually shows an appropriate abnor...
growth hormone therapy is indicated as a treatment for short stature for people with achondroplasia or hypochondroplasia, but not MCDS [15]. In the case of MCDS, carbamazepine, a drug treatment for epilepsy and other seizure disorders, trigeminal neuralgia, and bipolar disorder is undergoing a ...
In 2022, 48.7 million people aged 12 or older had asubstance use disorder,including 29.5 million using alcohol, 27.2 million using drugs, and 8 million people who used both. Living with an addict can be a living hell. Unpredictable and dangerous, yet sometimes exciting and romantic. Never kno...
(They tried to tell me I had DID, the new name for split personality disorder near the end. I mean come on, can any of you seriously tell me I’ve exhibited traits of that? No, I’m always William or Billy, with the same personality) And well, near the end before I figured out...
One year it seemed we were having the worst Christmas ever. That autumn my husband had been in a car accident. His broken neck was healing, but it left him with severe migraines and what doctors thought might be a seizure disorder. Because he wasn’t medically cleared to return to work,...
These included history of learning disability, decreased auditory and visual acuity, problems with expressive speech, hypotension, seizure disorder, traumatic brain injury, manic depression, schizophrenia, HIV infection, septicaemia, weight fluctuation, inability to lay flat due to shortness of breath, ...