Psychogenic nonepileptic seizures (PNES) are believed to be a type of disorder called a conversion disorder, in which physical symptoms don’t have an underlying physical cause. People with PNES look like they’re having epileptic seizures, but their symptoms are not caused by abnormal brain elec...
This sort of seizure can be difficult to identify, but is usually immediately noticeable if it’s being viewed on a brain scan. People who have been diagnosed as epileptic often have very individualized symptoms, but in most cases all of the seizures that they experience have similar ...
What happens in your brain when you see an epileptic seizure?P.T., FernandesE.L., SilvaG., CastellanoL.M., Li
An epileptologist is a type of medical doctor who specializes in treating patients who are diagnosed with epilepsy. He or she...
I would say definitely the two may be well connected the first being an aura of the main seizure coming on. Byanon59160— On Jan 06, 2010 I am a epileptic and have been since i was a year and a half old is when i was diagnosed with it. I am now 31 and have been on medicine...
Status epilepticus (SE) is a medical emergency that starts when a seizure that lasts longer than expected, usually considered around 5 minutes (or if there’s more than one seizure that doesn't return to baseline). After this point, it becomes less and less likely that doctors will be able...
Scientists have done many experiments on different memory types. Perhaps the most famous of them was carried out on Henry Gustav Molaison, an epileptic (癫痫患者). In an operation in the 1950s, part of his brain was taken away. After that, the man suffered less from epilepsy. But there ...
Function of the Parietal Lobe of the Brain The brain is an amazing organ! It controls every single function of our body and does more than we even know. There are different parts of the brain and each part has specific functions.
What is a new-onset seizure?A seizure means an area in your child's brain sends a burst of electrical activity. A seizure may start in one part of the brain, or both sides may be affected. The seizure may last a few seconds or longer than 5 minutes. A new-onset seizure is a ...
Some studies found problems with EEG fMRI from inconclusive results. In some patients, no changes or insignificant changes in BOLD signals occurred when electrical activity increased. One study that mapped brain waves of epileptic patients over a long period of time in an attempt to identify regions...