Epilepsy and Seizure

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Have you ever experienced yourself or seen a person in Seizure or having Convulsions? Scary isn't it. The Seizures and Epilepsy makes a person lose conciousness and experience fits which holds a person for a duration of time. Read the following topics on this illness and try to help yourself or others who experience it.

Epilepsy is a disorder of the central nervous system characterized by loss of consciousness and convulsions. It is named form Greek word epilepsia which means a taking hold of or seizing. It is commonly taken care of by medication, although surgery is also an option.

Top Stories in Epilepsy and Seizure

Post-traumatic epilepsy - defined by the development of chronic seizures, change in consciousness or behavior that is a result of an electrical disturbance in the brain.		Fetal Alcohol Syndrome- growth, mental, and physical problems that may occur in a baby when a mother drinks alcohol during pregnancy.
Partial seizures - All partial seizures are characterized by onset in a limited area, or focus, of one cerebral hemisphere.		Abdominal epilepsy - how it affects children and adults? syndrome in which gastrointestinal complaints, most commonly abdominal pain, result from seizure activity.
Eyelid myoclonia - is the hallmark of Jeavons syndrome, The degree to which these recurrent events (5 to 6 Hz) are associated with impairment of consciousness.		Dravet Syndrome- What is Dravet Syndrome? a childhood-onset epilepsy. previously named severe myoclonic epilepsy of infancy (SMEI).

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More on Epilepsy and Seizure

Epilepsy

• Non-epileptic seizures
• Epilepsy in animals
• Seizure response dog
• Jacksonian seizure
• Photosensitive epilepsy
• Post-traumatic epilepsy
• Temporal lobe epilepsy
• Abdominal epilepsy
• Generalised epilepsy
• Frontal lobe epilepsy
• Occipital lobe epilepsy

Seizure

• Absence seizure
• Febrile seizure
• Frontal lobe seizures
• Grand mal seizure
• Temporal lobe seizure
• Partial seizures
• Generalized seizures
• Myoclonic seizures
• Clonic seizures
• Tonic seizures
• Tonic-clonic seizures
• Atonic seizures
• Focal seizure
• Status epilepticus
• Epilepsia partialis continua
• Massive bilateral myoclonus
• Eyelid myoclonia
• Gelastic seizures
• Aura continua
• West syndrome in Infancy
• Juvenile Myoclonic Epilepsy
• Fetal Alcohol Syndrome
• Autosomal Dominant Nocturnal Frontal Lobe Epilepsy
• Lennox Gastaut syndrome
• Schizotypy
• Childhood Absence Epilepsy
• Dravet Syndrome
• Benign focal epilepsy of childhood

Epilepsy initiates when nerve cells in the brain fire electrical impulses at a rate of up to four times higher than normal. This leads to a kind of electrical storm in the brain, known as a seizure. It can also be categorized as chronic neurological condition associated with recurring unprovoked seizures.

It can also be stated as a kind of seizure disorder that affects approximately two-million people in the United States. It is a chronic and repetitive disorder of the brain that results in a tendency to have unprovoked seizures repeatedly. It is a physical illness, rather a a mental one. Epileptics who conscientiously take standard doses of medication and who are free of seizures does lead normal life.