Epilepsy
Epilepsy9d Students know the functions of the nervous system and
the role of neurons in transmitting electrochemical impulses.9b
Students know how the nervous system mediates communication between
different parts of the body and the bodys interactions with the
environment.
How does epilepsy begin?Seizures happen when clusters of nerve
cells in the brain communicate with each other in a non normally
way.During a seizure the neurons normal pattern of activity is
disturbed causing them to fire about 500 times per second but its
normal rate is about 80 times per second. This causes strange
sensations emotions and behavior when the neurons normal pattern of
activity is disturbed and can cause a seizure.What can cause a
seizure can be illness, and brain damage.
What causes epilepsy?There are a few things that can cause
seizures to happen like lack of sleep, missing doses of medication
and lack of oxygen.
Seizures can be caused from alcohol drug abuse or from an
infection. People can even have seizures if they had a head injury
or if a blood vessel popped in their brain.
The cause of a seizure can be in a normal brain. There are a lot
of nerve cells that send electrical impulses to our brain. These
impulses make contact with other areas of the brain and do there
job everyday. When these impulses get disturbed, a seizure
happens.
Does Epilepsy Effect Are Daily Life?Most people with epilepsy
show to live normal lives. Approximately 80 percent can be help by
modern therapies and some may go months or years between seizures.
People with severe seizures that stand treatment have a shorter
life and increased there risk of making the seizure worse specially
if they had developed seizures when they were little kids. These
causes can be related to the conditions that causes epilepsy or to
epilepsy treatment rather than the epilepsy itself.
Can Epilepsy Be Prevented?You can prevent epilepsy by wearing
seatbelts and bicycle helmets, putting children in car seats, and
other things that prevent head injuries. Prescribing medication
after first or second seizures also may help to prevent epilepsy.
Finally identifying the genes for many nerve system disorders can
provide many chances to detect a bad birth diagnose that may maybe
prevent many cases of epilepsy.
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Can Epilepsy Be Treated?Epilepsy can be treated with drugs. It
is very important to follow your doctors instructions when taking
epilepsy drugs. Vagus Nerve stimulation is a thing that can also be
another way to treat epilepsy. Its job is to send weak electrical
signals to the Vagus Nerve in your neck which sends the signals to
your brain at normal rate to decrease seizures. Surgery is another
way to treat epilepsy. You can only get surgery if the medicine
didnt make and affect to you or if its your last choice.
The Symptoms Of EpilepsyAlmost any type of behavior that happens
more than twice may represent a seizure. The only way you can see
the symptoms of epilepsy is when you have a seizure. There is no
warning it just happens out of no where. There are different types
of seizures that happen in many parts of the brain. Seizures that
make you fall to the ground or make your muscles stiff or get out
of control are easy to recognize. Some seizures that make you stare
into space for a few seconds, or make you twitch is another symptom
of a seizure.
History Of Epilepsy People have known about epilepsy for
thousands of years but have not understood it until now. The
ancientBabylonians wrote about the symptoms and causes of epilepsy
3000 years ago. They thought that seizures were caused by demons
attacking the person. Ancient Romans believed that epilepsy came
from demons and was contagious by touching or being breathed on by
aperson with epilepsy. If this would happen then people would spit
on the floor to get rid of the demons.In most cultures persons with
epilepsy have been stigmatized and imprisoned. In ancient Rome
epilepsy was known as a curse from the gods. Scientific discoveries
about how the brain works allowed us to make medicines that work
better for us and helped people with epilepsy to live normal
lives.
How Does A Person Feel after Epilepsy?After a seizure happens to
a person they feel pain or they just dont feel it at all or they
wake up all lost. People sometimes get ill after a seizure has
happen to them.Or sometimes the person wakes up all twitchy after
the seizure or their emotion changes after the seizure.
Different Kind Of EpilepsyThere are different kinds of epilepsy
and many of them are very rare. These are some examples of the
different types of epilepsy.There's, Absence Epilepsy, Temporal
lobe Epilepsy, Frontal lobe Epilepsy and etc..
What Increases Your Risk?The risk of developing epilepsy
increases if you have family history of epilepsy.Head injuries for
example a penetrating wound or skull fracture.Problems with brain
development that happened before birth.Or epilepsy may develop even
though you do not have any risk factors.
Citing's http://www.emedicinehealth.com/epilepsy/article_em.htm
11/25/11http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epilepsy
11/25/11http://www.ninds.nih.gov/disorders/epilepsy/epilepsy.htm
11/25/11http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MRZY2a2jnuw
11/25/11RussLBarth school project Hey my name is Eduardo Yarza and
I'm doing a project about epilepsy and I was wondering if I could
use this video for my school project. It's for my biology class. It
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RussLBarth Re: school project i give permission for exactly that
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