This is what the ancient Greeks called her and believed that she was a sign of divine intervention. In Russia, this disease was called easier – “epilepsy”, simplifying its Latin name “caduca”. Epilepsy – namely, it is hidden behind these two terms – such celebrities as V. Van Gogh, G. Flaubert and F. Dostoevsky suffered, but this did…
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Epilepsy is a chronic disease of the human brain, which has a different etiology and is characterized mainly by repeated seizures and the gradual development of personality changes. This is one of the most common neuropsychiatric diseases: in the general population, there are 7-10 cases per 1000 population. Regular use of anticonvulsant medications leads to the prevention…
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At the moment of loss of short-term memory, a person begins to forget what happened to him several minutes, hours, days or months ago. At the same time, the patient can remember who he is and is also able to recover some of the events that happened to him several years ago. Types of memory Short-term…
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Heredity plays an important role in most cases of epilepsy. But although the disease is considered genetic, a number of other external factors determining the intensity of the symptoms also affect the likelihood of its manifestation. Genetic factor It is generally accepted that epilepsy can occur as a result of a serious head injury. However, epilepsy does…
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Episyndrome is a consequence of diseases similar in clinical signs to epilepsy. Epileptic seizures disappear after the elimination of the root cause, the symptoms of which they are. The causes of the episindrome are collapse, brain tumor, traumatic brain injury, fainting, arising from disturbances in cardiac conduction and rhythm, hypoxia, congenital pathologies of the brain, sclerosis,…
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The ancients said: “All diseases are from nerves.” And they were right. It is moral and mental overstrain that gives the brain a signal to turn off a number of protective functions of the body in order to conserve strength, but it is this natural mechanism of “shutdown” that leads to the development of diseases. Nervous diseases…
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Epilepsy (epileptic disease) is a chronic brain disease of various etiologies, which is characterized by repeated unprovoked attacks of impaired motor, sensory, autonomic, mental or mental functions resulting from excessive neural discharges. Epileptic disease includes only repeated and spontaneous seizures (with the exception of reflex forms, for example, photosensitive epilepsy, reading epilepsy). Epilepsy is a large…
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In a child with a diagnosis of perinatal brain damage after 1 month of life, the doctor is able to determine the prognosis of further development of the child, which can be characterized by a complete recovery or development of minimal disorders of the central nervous system, and serious diseases requiring compulsory treatment and observation…
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Epilepsy is one of the most common diseases of the nervous system. The incidence of epilepsy is 50 – 70 cases per 100 thousand people, the prevalence of 5 – 10 per 1 thousand people, at least 1 seizure is borne by 5% of the population during life, in 20 – 30% of patients the disease…
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Alexander the Great and Caesar, Peter the Great and Napoleon suffered from epilepsy as an “outstanding disease”, “an epilepsy” or, as the Greeks called it. As you know, in addition to the psychotherapeutic method for the treatment of this disease, doctors use medication and even neurosurgery, but at the same time we have to admit that…
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