70 July 2006 • EP MAGAZINE/www.eparent.com Introduction In adolescents, diagnosing seizures can be challenging and can lead to many pitfalls. Because seizures are episodic and unpred ictable events, they usually do not occur in the doctor's office.
48 July 2007 • EP MAGAZINE/www.eparent.com Most parents are used to erratic sleep patterns and mood swings in their teenagers. When these occur in an adolescent with seizures, however, the parent may wonder if sleep and mood problems are related to seizures.
Most common are epileptic seizures, or seizures caused by sudden abnormal electrical discharges in the brain. Non-epileptic seizures, on the other hand, ...
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Intro Text Chapter Head Chapter # BRAIN TUMOR PRIMER 52 | BRAIN TUMOR PRIMER 52 | Seizures are common symptoms of a brain tumor. For some people, a seizure may be the first clue that something unusual is happening in their brain.
X-Plain Seizures And Epilepsy Reference Summary Introduction More than 2 million people in the United States have been diagnosed with epilepsy or have experienced a seizure.
Partial seizures may evolve into generalized seizures. 1 Generalized seizures are categorized as petit mal or absence seizures, atypical seizures, ...
Page 2 Signs of Seizure Aura Some people have an aura, a warning sign that occurs right before the seizure. The aura may be a headache, changes in vision, hearing noises or smelling a scent such as smoke.
16 Seizures in Cats (See Parent, JM and Quesnel, A: Vet Clin N Amer 26:811, 1996) Seizures in cats are less frequent and more often due to organic disease of the brain than in dogs, ...
Non-epileptic Seizures: Classification Co-existence with Epilepsy: Diagnosis, Therapeutic Approaches and Consensus Minnesota Epilepsy Group, P.A.