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| What's the definition of a seizure? |
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| Abnormal electrical activity of neuronal cells in the brain that alters brain function |
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| Recurrent seizures (at least 2) not due to an external factor |
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| Epilepsy is the ___ most common neurological disorder |
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| Is there an association between depression & epilepsy? |
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| Sometimes people w/ epilepsy have an aura. what is that? |
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| Positive sensory phenomenon experienced before a seizure |
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| Convulsion is known as a tonic-clonic seizure. What does tonic-clonic mean? |
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| tonic refers to external stiffening and clonic refers to the rhythmical jerking of limbs and head. Tonic clonic is also known as a fit |
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| Rapid involuntary jerking of the limbs or head |
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| Define Ictal, Post-Ictal and Inter-Ictal periods |
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| Ictal is the period of a seizure, post-Ictal is after a seizure but before recovery and Inter-Ictal is the time between two seizures |
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| Epileptic seizures begin were in the brain? |
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| In epileptic seizures is the relationship between cortical and thalamic neurons normal? |
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| what are the seizure types in epileptic seizures |
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| Simple partial and complex complex |
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| What is a partial seizures |
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| Electrical disturbances start in one hemisphere and it may move onto other areas causing a person to become unconscious |
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| If a partial seizure spreads to both hemispheres, what is that called? |
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| A person w/ simple partial seizure is still conscious, but may have |
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| twitching of a limb, funny taste or an unusual feeling such as pins and needs |
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| Describe a complex partial seizure |
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| Starts in one area of the brain and can spread to other areas that affect consciousness |
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| If you see a person having a complex partial seizure what behavior would you see? |
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| Change of awareness, may start tugging their clothes |
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| This seizure is most common in children and involves a brief disruption of consciouness |
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| How does a child look like if they are having an absence seizure |
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| They stop what they are doing, stare blankly, eyes may roll in the back of their head, smack lips or sweating |
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| a petit mal attack is known as |
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| Name the 3 phases of a Tonic Clonic Seizure |
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1. Tonic phase: Cries out and falls, may lose bladder control
2. Clonic phase: Jerking
3. Postictal phase: Fatigue and limpness |
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| Partial (focal) onset epilepsie affects |
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1. Motor
2. Sensory
3. Mixed motor-sensory
4. Autonomic-visceral |
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| Name the 7 Clinical manifestations of Primarily generalized |
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1. Typical absence (petit mal)
2. Atypical absence
3. Tonic-clonic (grand mal)
4. Myoclonic
5. Atonic (epileptic drop attacks)
6. Tonic, clonic or clonic-tonic
7. Infantile spasms |
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| Epilepsy occur in which age groups |
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| Disruption of normal pattern of activity takes the form of ________ ______ of an ensemble of neurons w/in neural network |
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| In partial epilepsie injury to the brain disrupt the naive _____ processes w/in a network resulting in synchronized discharge by a group of _____ neurons |
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| What are normal rhythms in a EEG |
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| What are abnormal findings in epilepsy |
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Spike and wave
sharp waves |
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| Seizure drugs affect what kind of channels? |
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| Voltage dependent sodium channels, T typc calcium channels and GABA disorder |
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