the entire body is affected when someone experiences a generalized seizure. It may happen when nerve cells in both parts of the brain misfire and may cause the individual to fall or blackout, as well as cause muscle spasms. Generalized seizures are further divided into 6 major types of seizur...
brain surgery may be an alternative treatment. The surgery involves removing a single small area of the brain tissue that is responsible for seizure activity. Alternatively, surgery may be done to remove brain tumors that may be stimulating seizure activity. ...
Convulsions are a major symptom of some types of seizures. Neurotoxic substances, including those produced in response to disease and certain drugs, also can cause convulsions. Epileptic Seizure Epileptic seizuresare characterized by electrical disturbances in the brain. Not all are associated with convu...
A normal sleep cycle has two major categories termed REM and non-REM. REM stands for rapid eye movement. REM sleep is characterized by muscle relaxation, dreaming, episodic rapid eye movements, and low amplitude waves on an EEG (encephalograph). Non-REM sleep is divided into four stages from...
Symptoms Common to Both Major Types of DiabetesFatigue: For persons with diabetes, their body cannot efficiently use glucose to provide energy, or is unable to at all. Instead, their body either partially or completely metabolizes fat as a source for energy, requiring more energy. The result ...
Blood-brain barrier breakdown may predispose to seizure and localized neuronal dysfunction. Finally, signs and symptoms in brain tumors can be generalized, associated with increased intracranial brain pressure, but can also be localized, based on the involvement of the major structures of the central ...
Hallucinations and risk of seizure are most severe in the first week of withdrawal, but the rest of the symptoms will persist for at least 2 weeks on average. While the majority of the physical symptoms may have resolved by 2 to 3 weeks after ceasing Xanax use, the psychological symptoms ...
Injury is the most common cause of brain bleeds in people younger than age 50. High blood pressure. Over time, this ongoing condition can weaken the walls of your blood vessels. Untreated high blood pressure is a major preventable cause of brain hemorrhages. Aneurysm. A weakening in one of ...
The single-cell transcriptomic atlas iPain identifies senescence of nociceptors as a therapeutical target for chronic pain treatment Chronic pain remains a major clinical challenge with unclear causes and a need for new treatment. Using the single-cell transcriptomics atlas iPain, here the authors sho...
episode of major depression, but lasts much longer (at least two years in adults and at least one year in children and adolescents). Many people with this disorder describe having been depressed as long as they can remember, or feeling as though they go in and out of depression all the ...