Did you know the famous Russian novelist Fyodor Dostoyevsky of the 18th century decadent Russia was a patient of epilepsy himself and his second most famous novel The Idiot depicts the effects and incidence of apparent temporal lobe seizures. Yes, temporal lobe seizure or temporal lobe epilepsy is another variant of or sub type of epilepsy. Temporal lobe epilepsy falls under the category of focal epilepsy. A person suffering from temporal lobe epilepsy...
There are various kinds of epilepsy. Sensory epilepsy is a type of focal epilepsy that may not or may be accompanied by seizures. A characteristic of sensory epilepsy is disturbance of sensation of various types that are let out in spasms or paroxysms. In a sensory epilepsy attack the activity of cerebrum is hindered or disturbed. Because of this, the patient displays signs and symptoms like sensing or feeling a special kind of phenomenon involving...
Just like any other disease, epilepsy also has different types of syndromes and there is a particular set of symptom which characterizes each syndrome of epilepsy. The types or syndromes of epilepsy are numerous, amounting to hundreds and it has been observed that quite a few of these epilepsy types are rare or very rare. Usually the type of epilepsy is named or classified according to the portion of the brain where the epilepsy originates or after...
The different types of epilepsy are dependent on the different syndromes which are again dependent, on their turn, and a cluster of features. Thus the different types of epilepsy as defined by their features may include a pattern of seizures that occur at a particular time of the day, the frequency and severity of the seizures, seizure provoking factors, which portion of the brain is involved, hereditary factors or whether the seizures run in the...
Did you know that when the usual pattern of the normal activity of the brain is hindered by any factor, it can trigger off epilepsy? The causes of epilepsy can be numerous and varied – such as abnormal brain development or brain damage or illness. However these account for only 25% of the cases. In the rest 75% of the epilepsy cases, no exact cause can be ascertained. The reason why doctors find it very difficult to identify any specific cause...
Epilepsy can be of several types and it is a pretty common condition all over the world, where 50 million people are afflicted by epilepsy annually and in America, 2% of the entire population falls prey to epilepsy every year. In this article we shall discuss a rare sub type of epilepsy called abdominal epilepsy. Abdominal epilepsy When epileptiform seizure activity causes GI or gastrointestinal disturbances, it gives rise to the very rare medical...
When recurrent seizures that are unprovoked accompany a kind of chronic neurological disorder that is pretty common, it is known as epilepsy. 2% of the American population is a prey of epilepsy at any given point of time and the global figures amount to 50 million annually. Although epilepsy is treatable and can be effectively kept under control through drugs and medication, if the case is severe or critical, surgery might be a last resort. But in...
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