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1. Seizure Meds Can Be Safely Withdrawn From Kids With Epilepsy - US News and World Report
Study finds relatively low risk of developing intractable disease
2. Epilepsy
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Epilepsy is a brain disorder involving repeated, spontaneous seizures of any type. Seizures ("fits," convulsions) are episodes of disturbed brain function that cause changes in attention or behavior. They are caused by abnormally excited electrica... Reviewer: Reviewed by David Zieve, MD, MHA, Medical Director, A.D.A.M., Inc., and David C. Dugdale, III, MD, Professor of Medicine, Division of General Medicine, Department of Medicine, University of Washington School of Medicine. Previously reviewed by Daniel B. Hoch, PhD, MD, Assistant Professor of Neurology, Harvard Medical School, Department of Neurology, Massachusetts General Hospital. (6/19/08)
3. Epilepsy : Diagnosis
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Personal and family medical history, description of seizure activity, and physical and neurological examinations help primary care physicians, neurologists, and epileptologists diagnose this disorder. Doctors rule out conditions that cause symptom... Author: Mai Tran, Teresa G. Odle Expand your search to include all of U.S. News
4. Seizure disorder - Screening and diagnosis -- Mayo Clinic
An EEG helps determine what type of seizures or epilepsy you have and from which part of the brain seizures may start. Epilepsy is a brain disorder that causes a tendency to have recurrent seizures. Descriptions of your past seizures from... http://www.mayoclinic.com/invoke.cfm?objectid=352B66F5-CF68-45A7-A0E816C2832ABA...
5. Epilepsy -- Information from Harvard Medical School
During one of these epileptic episodes, commonly called a seizure or convulsion, brain cells fire uncontrollably at up to four times their normal rate, temporarily affecting the way a person behaves, moves, thinks or feels. http://www.intelihealth.com/IH/ihtIH/WSIHW000/9339/9902.html#diagnosis
6. Seizure Disorders: Diagnosis -- Information from the Merck Manual
Generalized seizures include tonic-clonic seizures, primary generalized epilepsy, absence seizures, atonic seizures, myoclonic seizures, and status epilepticus. Partial seizures include simple partial seizures, Jacksonian seizures, complex... http://www.merck.com/mmhe/sec06/ch085/ch085a.html#sec06-ch085-ch085a-619 |
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