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Spasmodic seizures develop on the basis of a strong degree of excitation of nerve cells in the brain. Typically, these nerve cells form a cluster in any area of ​​the brain. It is possible to establish the localization of the cluster using electroencephalography studies and by characteristic manifestations, for example, features of spasms, the presence or absence of…
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Frequent dizziness can be compared with a sensation when a person thinks that he is either moving himself or all the objects around him. Frequent dizziness is not an independent disease, but serves as a symptom of a huge number of pathologies. In modern medicine, there are more than eighty reasons why frequent dizziness may occur. In one…
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Scientists have discovered two completely new genes, which, as it turned out, are associated with the most severe forms of childhood epilepsy, using innovative technologies. Researchers note that the genetic research technique can be a highly effective method for making scientific discoveries in relation to such complex neurological diseases as epilepsy. According to official data…
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The diagnosis of “epilepsy” is made to a person after several or more seizures have occurred to him, with the preliminary exclusion of other diseases that could also cause epilepsy seizures. Epilepsy is a condition of a person in which such seizures will happen to him often enough. Epilepsy affects one child out of a thousand, under the…
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One of the fundamental medical laws is: the more complex the system, the easier it is to damage it. This law is fully valid in relation to the nervous system: its organization is incredibly complex and diverse, and how complex and diverse are its diseases. Since 1998, diseases of the nervous system have occupied the third place in the…
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Before describing neurological syndromes , it should be clarified what this term means and how the concepts of “syndrome” and “disease” differ. Neurological diseases in their entirety are accompanied by a host of different syndromes: from subtle to the most severe and even fatal. The main task of diagnosis is to correctly identify them and, putting them in a…
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Epilepsy is a common ailment. According to various sources, 1–5 people per 1000 population are exposed to it. The etiology of the disease is not fully understood, has a tendency to chronic course. With an unfavorable course, epilepsy can lead to epileptic dementia. The disease develops at any age, both from a few months old and in advanced years. However,…
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A group of British scientists managed to develop a new tool that can fight epilepsy. In the coming decade, people will be able to take pills for epilepsy as needed, such as pills for headaches. Currently, among the 50 million people who suffer from epilepsy, only 70% of them respond positively to antiepileptic drugs, while the rest…
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Epilepsy is an incurable neurological disease that manifests itself in the form of epileptic seizures of varying severity. They are characterized by temporary dysfunctions in groups of neurons that are concentrated in the focus of epilepsy. Such a picture is observed on the electroencephalogram during seizures. Symptoms The intensity of seizures characteristic of epilepsy depends on the…
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