Archive for the ‘Epilepsy’ Category
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EPILEPSY AND ITS SPECIAL FORMS/SPECIAL PATTERNS AND CAUSES:DEGENERATIVE DISEASES
A number of progressive, degenerative diseases of the brain affect children. Epilepsy is commonly seen in most of them. One group is called storage diseases because the proteins and fats that are normally broken down to waste products (metabolized) and eliminated from the body cannot be broken down in these rare inherited metabolic conditions. These [...]
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SURGICAL APPROACHES TO EPILEPSY: SURGERY FOR PARTIAL SEIZURES – RISK-BENEFIT DISCUSSION WITH YOUR PHYSICIANS – YOUR CHILD’S CHANCE OF SUCCESS
You cannot, however, apply statistical figures to your child. Your child’s chance of success will depend on the cause of the seizures and the exact location of the focus within these lobes. The figures quoted also depend on how a specific center selects its patients for surgery. If they only select “ideal” candidates their success [...]
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SEXUAL ACTIVITY AND EPILEPSY
Orgasm in both men and women is presumably accompanied by some sort of ‘paroxysmal discharge of cerebral nerve cells’. This, and the impossibility of control of orgasm beyond a certain point, suggests an analogy with seizures. In fact seizures during or immediately after intercourse are exceptionally uncommon. When they do occur, they probably represent one [...]