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The ultimate goal of epilepsy treatment is to get the patient seizure-free; however, this does not happen in the majority of cases. As such, we should instead aim to reduce frequency of seizures as much as possible to an "acceptable" occurrence, although this will depend on each case. My...
Epilepsy and Other Seizures Seizures, often occurring due to the neurological disorder epilepsy, are bursts of disruptive activity in the brain. They causeconvulsions, among other symptoms. Paresthesia and neuropathy in the face and head can result, especially if attacks occur repeatedly.10 ...
Abnormal or frequent yawning is symptomatic of numerous pathologies, including migraine headaches, stress and anxiety, head trauma and stroke, basal ganglia disorders, focal brain lesions, epilepsy, multiple sclerosis, schizophrenia, sopite syndrome, and even gastro-intestinal and some infectious diseases...
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Seizures and epilepsy Infections (like those causing meningitis and encephalitis) Brain tumors and cancers Traumatic brain injuries Degenerative brain diseases causing cognitive decline (like Alzheimer’s disease and frontotemporal dementia) Many of these conditions may require a combination of therapies to ...
Dogs can also suffer from epilepsy, which causes victims to collapse and have spasms. An epileptic attack may involve your dog falling on the ground and paddling with its legs as if it were swimming. Seizures aren’t physically painful for the victim, but they can lead to injury as the vi...
it could indicate that they are in their REM phase when dreaming is most likely to occur. In dogs, REM lasts just a few minutes. Finally, look at their eyes. If your dog’s eyeballs are moving around under their eyelids, this is another indication that they are in the rapid eye movem...
As adolescence and young adulthood are periods of increased presentation of mental health disorders, including those that are female-specific such as premenstrual dyspho- ric disorder and catemenial epilepsy, it will be imperative to better identify and delineate interactions between adolescent brain ...
But, hey, the 11:11 experience can and does really shake you up (I wrote my first novel all about it & what it led me to). But the chaos of it happens (as it did with me) because it’s trying to set you down upon the right path! I have temporal lobe epilepsy, so I get ...