| Epilepsy | | | | Diagnosis Of Epilepsy |
| Epilepsy is a brain disorder in which a person has | | | | An electroencephalograph (EEG), a reading of the |
| recurrent seizures. A seizure is caused by a sudden | | | | electrical activity in the brain, may confirm the |
| burst of excess electrical activity in the brain, causing a | | | | presence of various types of seizures. It may, in some |
| temporary disruption in the normal message passing | | | | cases, indicate the location of the lesion causing the |
| between brain cells. This disruption results in the brain's | | | | seizure. EEGs can often be normal in between |
| messages becoming halted or mixed up. | | | | seizures, so it may be necessary to do prolonged |
| Classification And Types Of Epilepsy | | | | EEG monitoring. |
| A simple classification of epilepsy is : - | | | | Brain imaging methods (magnetic resonance imaging |
| * Generalised Epilepsyo Generalised Tonic Clonic | | | | [MRI] or computer tomography [CT] scanning) may |
| seizureso Absenceso Myoclonic epilepsy | | | | also be used to find the location of a scar or damaged |
| * Partial Epilepsyo Simple partial seizureo Complex | | | | brain tissue. Sometimes positron emission tomography |
| partial seizure | | | | [PET] is used to examine brain blood flow. |
| * Partial becoming generalized. | | | | The Treatments For Epilepsy Include : - |
| Causes Of Epilepsy | | | | Temporal Lobectomy |
| Some seizures are idiopathic, which means the cause | | | | Lesionectomy |
| can not be identified. Such seizures usually begin | | | | Hemispherectomy |
| between ages 5 and 20, but they can occur at any | | | | Corpus Callosotomy |
| age. People with this condition have no other | | | | Vagus Nerve Stimulation |
| neurological problems, but often have a family history | | | | Multiple Subpial Transections |
| of seizures or epilepsy. | | | | |
| Some of the things that can make a person more | | | | |
| likely to develop epilepsy : - | | | | Please log on to : Epilepsy |
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