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HOW WE DIAGNOSE A SEIZURE AND DECIDE WHAT IT WILL MEAN FOR YOUR CHILD

A seizure, as we have seen, is a sudden alteration in behavior or in motor function caused by an electrical discharge from the brain. It should be very easy to diagnose a seizure since it is simply a sudden change in behavior or motor function. But sometimes it’s not that simple; people have sudden changes [...]

Posted on February 24, 2011 at 7:52 am by admin · Permalink · Leave a comment
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HOW COMMON ARE THE INDIVIDUAL CAUSES OF EPILEPSY?

Causes of epilepsy that could be defined, with a fair degree of confidence, in each of two studies. The way in which the subjects were selected was different in each study, but the final figure—the proportion in which a cause for epilepsy could be defined—varied within narrow limits, between only 34.5 per cent and 39.0 [...]

Posted on April 28, 2009 at 6:31 am by admin · Permalink · Leave a comment
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