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  • Medical Problems Of Golden Retrievers
    By: Tristan Andrews | - Epilepsy, also known as seizures, epilepsy disorders normally occur from viral infections, and environmental factors as well. Even though an inaccessible seizure isn't always a problem, dogs that have recurring seizures should never be bred. Vets can recommend medicines that control recurring seizures, although medicine isn't always effective. Although epilepsy doesn't affect the health of a Golden Retriever, it does have an effect on breeding. You can never tell if it is indeed heredity, th ...
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  • Epilepsy Symptoms And Cure
    By: credulous jolly | - In epilepsy, there is a sudden transitory disturbance in brain, leading to sudden generalized convulsions of the whole body, involving all the four limbs, including the face, all at once (i.e. disturbance in motor function of the brain), called generalized/major/grand mal epilepsy. Or, there is convulsion of a part of the body, e.g. one of the limbs, or a part of the limb, say an arm, hand, foot, etc., or muscles of the face/ eye only. In some cases, however, these convulsions may spread first o ...
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  • Hemispherectomy: Epileptic Attacks And Losing One Hemisphere Of Your Brain
    By: Remedios V. Lucio | - Hemispherectomy is a surgical treatment for epilepsy that removes one of the two cerebral hemispheres of the brain. Removing or disconnecting the focus from the rest of the brain can reduce seizure frequency and intensity.

    There are epileptic people with no single focus. If there are multiple focal points within one hemisphere, or if the focus is undefined but restricted to one hemisphere, hemispherectomy may be indicated for treatment, explained Science Daily.

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  • Magnesium For Rls, Migraine, Cardio, And Diabetes
    By: Pat Boardman | - There have been pharmaceutical news items announcing treatments for Restless Leg Syndrome using powerful drugs meant for serious illnesses in a secondary role, that of medicating for RLS. Several drugs have been celebrated as a treatment. One is a prescription for seizures and another is one given to Parkinson's Disease victims. If this sounds like overkill already, it's even more unbalanced considering the condition of RLS is easily treated by an all-natural substance: magnesium oxide. Most peo ...
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  • Bringing Epilepsy Out Of The Shadows
    By: Amith Ghosh | - Approximately two in every hundred Canadians are diagnosed with having epilepsy, most often during early childhood or in later life.
    Luckily, there is hope for a significant number of children who, with age, outgrow this disorder and for the great number of individuals who are able to successfully manage epilepsy thanks to anti-epileptic medication.
    In addition, we have come a long way in our understanding of the disorder considering throughout most of history, demonic possess ...

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  • Dog Breeders: Are You Getting What You Pay For?
    By: Pat Perkins | - A year after they were married, Amanda and Tom, a professional couple, moved from the city to the suburbs. They rented a cute little cape-style house with a good-sized backyard in a residential neighborhood that was close enough to the city to allow them to commute to their jobs. For the first time in their lives, they had their very own house, but something was missing... they wanted a dog.

    With their landlord's consent and a dog in mind, they invested in a tall privacy fence for ...

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  • 5 Ways To Find The Right Dentures
    By: Ali khan | - Although dentures aren't the best alternative for your teeth, which are undoubtedly help some people keep their smile. With these tips in the search for dentures for you, you can not stop smiling.

    Talk to your dentist

    Although it seems that your dentist in May May is the one to tell you about dentures, May you also want to solve the problem before it becomes an immediate problem. You may have to take certain medications that can affect your dental health epilepsy drug ...

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  • Women And Epilepsy
    By: James Pendergraft | - Epilepsy is a common neurological disorder that is characterized by recurrent and unprovoked seizures. The seizures are transient signs or symptoms of abnormal and excessive neuronal activity in the brain. A large percentage of people all over the world have epilepsy, and it usually occurs in young children or the elderly. This disease is usually controlled, but it is not fully cured with medication. Surgery can be an option but not for all cases. The syndrome of epilepsy will not occur lifelong ...
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  • Treatment Options For Epileptic Seizures
    By: Ivan Bubkin | - Epilepsy is a condition that results from disturbance in the normal electrical activity of the brain that causes recurrent unprovoked seizures. Epileptic seizures or fits may vary from momentary inattention, without loss of consciousness (minor epilepsy), to muscular spasm and convulsions (major epilepsy). In 70 percent of cases there is no known cause why epilepsy occurs. Multiple reasons are possible, such as head injury, brain surgery, strokes, and serious infections as well as the use of ce ...
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  • Three Causes Of Dog Seizures
    By: D Swain | - Dog seizures are a sign that there are neurological problems with your pet. There are various things that can cause a dog to have a seizure besides epilepsy. Some of the most common include tumors, distemper, and toxins. Let's take a look at some of the most common causes of dog seizures.

    Brain Tumors

    Brain tumors are occasionally responsible for causing dog seizures. Tumors can grow from brain tissues or spread to the brain from other organs in the body. If these t ...

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  • The Effects And Symptoms Of A Brain Injury
    By: Kimberlie Hutson | - An injury to the head will nearly always have an impact upon the brain. The brain, through a system of millions of nerves, controls every thought, physical action and emotion. An injury to the head can therefore stop these actions and that is why a brain injury can be so wide ranging in its effect and devastating in its consequences.

    Every year one million people in the UK will attend hospital with a brain injury. Fortunately in 85% of cases the injury is mild and in most of these ...

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  • Children With Epilepsy Benefit From Massage Therapy
    By: Tina Allen, LMT, CPMMT, CPMT, CIMT | - What are Seizures and Epilepsy?

    For children having seizures or Epilepsy can be frightening, and even more so for parents who witness the seizure. When a child experiences a seizure the first thing that needs to be done is to try and ascertain a diagnosis. There are different types of pediatric seizures a child may experience.

    As defined by E Medicine Health; a seizure occurs when the brain functions abnormally, resulting in a change in movement, attention, or lev ...

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  • The Epileptic Dog And How To Take Care Of Your Favorite Pet
    By: Julie-Ann Amos | - Epilepsy is a neurological disease. It happens when the neurons of the brain misfire. There is no underlying cause. There is also no known cure. Many of the symptoms, characters and behaviors of epileptic dogs mirror those of the disease in humans. In dogs, it can be the result of hypoglycemia. It may also be a form called idiopathic epilepsy. The latter form is more common among dogs around 3 years old. Epilepsy may also be more common among certain breeds. You should watch for signs if you hav ...
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  • The Truth About Feline Seizures
    By: D Swain | - Feline seizures are usually a symptom of an underlying disease. If a disease can't be definitively diagnosed, then your cat is said to have epilepsy. These seizures can be life-threatening if they last too long, usually over five minutes.

    Causes

    Most cats suffer from seizures due to a condition other than epilepsy. Two of the main causes include cancerous tumors and ingestion of toxic chemicals. There are also certain diseases that can make your cat start having ...

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  • The Links Between Sleep Deprivation And Epilepsy
    By: Ryan Pham | - Suffering from sleep deprivation can have a lot of adverse side effects, and sleeplessness is even more dangerous if the person has epilepsy. Epilepsy is a common chronic neurological disorder and is associated with the seizures sufferers acquire involuntarily. The seizures are symptoms of an excessive, abnormal, or synchronous neuronal activity in the brain. It is estimated that fifty million people all over the world has epilepsy or has experienced epilepsy at one point in their lives.
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  • Advice On Epilepsy
    By: Abdus Sami | - However, severity of attack can be different for different people and it is because of the involvement of brain. When a larger part of brain will be involved, the person will be having a more severe attack in which the whole body will be involved.

    Epilepsy

    Epilepsy, surely, is an unwanted situation. Dealing with a friend or family member having epilepsy can really be a difficult situation. However, there are few things that you must keep in mind while dealing with ...

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  • Information On Infantile Spasms
    By: Juliet | - Infantile spasms also called West syndrome. Infantile spasms are an uncommon to rare and grave form of epilepsy in infants. About 60% of the affected infants have some brain disorder or brain injury before the seizures begin, but the others have had no apparent injury and have been developing normally. Infantile spasm (IS) is a specific type of seizure seen in an epilepsy syndrome of infancy. The syndrome is age-related, generally occurring between the third and the twelfth month, generally mani ...
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  • Complete Information On Epilepsy
    By: Juliet | - Epilepsy is a physical state which starts in the brain. Epilepsy is characterized by recurring unprovoked seizures. Sometimes seizures are related to a provisional state, such as the exposure to drugs, the withdrawal of certain drugs, or the abnormal levels of sodium or glucose in blood. There are many various types of seizures. The kind of seizure that a person has to count on which part and which quantity of brain is affected by the electric disturbance which produces seizures. Some seizures a ...
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  • What Is Epilepsy
    By: john parker1 | - Epilepsy, or seizure disorder, is a condition in which a person has recurrent seizures under normal environmental conditions. Seizures and changes in behavior or activity are brought about by an abnormal electrical discharge of brain cells.
    The two main categories are:
    1) Generalized Onset in which the seizure discharge starts on both sides of the brain at once and
    2) Partial or Focal Onset in which the discharge starts in one area of the brain and then spreads over other ar ...

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  • Seizure - Symptoms, Treatment
    By: Peter Hutch | - Epilepsy is a recurrent seizure disorder caused by abnormal electrical discharges from brain cells, often in the cerebral cortex. It is not a distinct disease, it is a group of disorders for which recurrent seizures are the main symptom. Different forms of epilepsy are either secondary to a particular brain abnormality or neurological disorder, or are said to be "idiopathic," without any clear cause.

    Generalized seizures are produced by electrical impulses from throughout the enti ...

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  • Epilepsy "€" Symptoms , Causes And Treatment
    By: Peter Hutch | - Epilepsy is a common chronic neurological disorder that is characterized by recurrent unprovoked seizures.[1][2] These seizures are transient signs and/or symptoms due to abnormal, excessive or synchronous neuronal activity in the brain.[3] About 50 million people worldwide have epilepsy at any one time.[4] Epilepsy is usually controlled, but not cured, with medication, although surgery may be considered in difficult cases. Not all epilepsy syndromes are lifelong some forms are confined to p ...
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  • Epilepsy Causes, Symptoms And Treatments
    By: Peter Hutch | - Epilepsy

    Epilepsy is a group of related disorders characterized by a tendency for recurrent seizures. There are different types of epilepsy and seizures. Epilepsy drugs are prescribed to control seizures, and rarely surgery is necessary if medications are ineffective.

    Causes of Epilepsy

    Head trauma is an important cause of seizures and epilepsy. Although it is commonly accepted that a remote injury (that is, one which occurred at some time in the past ...

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  • Information On Cardiac Asystole
    By: Peter Hutch | - Cardiac asystole provoked by epileptic seizures is a rare but important complication in epilepsy and is supposed to be relevant to the pathogenesis of sudden unexplained death in epilepsy (SUDEP). We sought to determine the frequency of this complication in a population of patients with medically intractable epilepsy and to analyze the correlation between EEG, electrocardiogram (ECG), and clinical features obtained from long-term video-EEG monitoring.

    Cardiac asystole (EACA) in pa ...

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  • Natural Diet For Epilepsy
    By: Mitamins | - Choose the optimal diet

    Some patients can manage their epilepsy very well with medication; however, others may need surgery. Though many treatments are prone to overstate their effectiveness, the natural treatment of epilepsy has been tested and can reduce epilepsy seizures considerably. The ketogenic diet is well known as an effective diet for epilepsy. Ketosis, which can be produced by a diet high in fat and low in carbohydrate and protein, can be useful in reducing seizures. St ...

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  • Understanding Epilepsy In Its Many Forms
    By: David Cowley | - It's unfortunate that there are still quite a few misconceptions today about the disease of epilepsy and its many forms. While many have a basic knowledge of the disease as being a seizure disorder, this is usually where their knowledge ends. A true understanding of this condition, and of what it means for the patient, is often lacking. So while we can't substitute a medical degree in this small article, hopefully we can give you some helpful information about epilepsy that will be useful if ...
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  • Epilepsy In The Shih Tzu And Other Dog Breeds!
    By: con | - If your Shih Tzu is less than one year of age, the seizures are likely caused by congenital/genetic problems, infections or toxins. If your Shih Tzu is greater than six years old the seizures are likely caused by tumors or infectious/inflammatory problems. If the Shih Tzu between 1 and 5 years of age is normal between seizure episodes they are most likely in the third category of idiopathic epilepsy.

    Epilepsy is similar to a lightning strike on a house that sends abnormal currents ...

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  • Understanding Epilepsy
    By: caitlin | - Efforts to cure and raise awareness about the condition are getting a big boost from some big names.


    The disease is characterized by seizures; that is, a change in sensation, awareness or behavior brought about by a brief electrical disturbance in the brain. Seizures vary from a momentary disruption of the senses, to short periods of unconsciousness or staring spells, to convulsions.

    Doctors treat epilepsy primarily with seizure-preventing medicines. However ...

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  • Detailed Information On Epilepsy
    By: Juliet | - Epilepsy is a common chronic neurological disorder that is characterized by recurrent unprovoked seizures. The seizures happen when clusters of nerve cells, or neurons, in the brain send out the wrong signals. Epilepsy is a disorder in which nerve cells of the brain from time to time release abnormal electrical impulses. There are many types of seizures, depending primarily on what part of the brain is involved. The term epilepsy says nothing about the type of seizure or cause of the seizure, on ...
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  • Epilepsy Causes Symptoms Information With Treatment
    By: Juliet | - Epilepsy affects people in all nations and of all races. The onset of epilepsy is most common during childhood and after age 65, but the condition can occur at any age. Epilepsy is a condition of the nervous system that affects 2.5 million Americans. More than 180,000 people are diagnosed with epilepsy every year. In epilepsy, the normal pattern of neuronal activity becomes disturbed, causing strange sensations, emotions, and behavior or sometimes convulsions, muscle spasms, and loss of consciou ...
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  • The Best Diet For Epilepsy
    By: Lac Tran | - Unlike many diets that overstate their effectiveness, the diet for epilepsy actually holds many reasons to believe it can reduce epileptic fit episodes considerably. Medication has been the standard approach to epilepsy for a long time, but now, epilepsy diet, natural remedies and herbs, should regain center stage.

    The diet for epilepsy is known as the ketogenic diet, a diet designed in the was early twentieth century to treat the distressing syndrome, when few drug treatme ...

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  • Seizures In Dogs: Dogs With Epilepsy
    By: Dr. Andrew Jones, DVM | - I recently had an email from a former client who has a dog that suffers from seizures.

    Percy is a 4 year old yellow Lab with epilepsy. He has been on traditional ant-seizure medication, and is not responding very well now. He is suffering from seizures once a month, even on the highest doses of these medications.

    My former client asked me if there was anything she could do at home, holistically. She wants to avoid conventional medications as much as she can.
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  • Publication Of All-party Parliamentary Inquiry Report Into Epilepsy Services
    By: Laurence Vick | - This week saw the publications of the Joint Epilepsy Council of the UK and Ireland's online parliamentary report: "Wasted Money, Wasted Lives".

    A long list of failures in the care and treatment of people with epilepsy has resulted in around 400 avoidable deaths a year and 189 million in wasted funds, according to the report of the All-Party Parliamentary Group (APPG) on epilepsy published this week.

    Wasted Money, Wasted Lives, a hard-hitting report, supported by ...

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  • Does The Brain Atrophy Like A Muscle?
    By: Josh Stone | - We aren't so much talking about the physical structure of the brain itself - or are we? Medical and psychological research recently has pointed to the emerging idea that the more you exercise your brain, the better it will work in your old age and the more resistant you will be to Alzheimer's, dementia, and general cognitive impairments. It is very difficult to say exactly how this works - what, for instance, are we to make of the recent clinical test where a group who was taught how to juggle s ...
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  • Epilepsy In Dogs And Cats
    By: Matthew Homfray | - Epilepsy is a non progressive brain disorder that induces recurrent seizures. It is very important to understand that there are numerous disorders that can cause seizures, and in order to make a diagnosis of true epilepsy, many of these other causes must be ruled out.

    What is a Seizure?

    A seizure is the clinical manifestation of a cerebral disorder that can appear suddenly out of a background of normality, and then disappear with equal abruptness. The term fit is of ...

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  • Living With Epilepsy
    By: Shane Woods | - Living with someone who has epilepsy or if you have epilepsy yourself is somewhat difficult, but it is extremely do-able. Though there are bumps along the way, nothing is really impossible as long as one is clearly focused and intent on living a normal and natural way, with or without epilepsy.

    The following are some of the issues people with epilepsy usually encounter, as well as some helpful advice to make life as productive as possible. An epilepsy diagnosis has implications in ...

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  • Vitamins To Assist Management Of Epilepsy
    By: Steven Godlewski | - Epilepsy is the name given to any of a variety of neurological disorders that are characterized by sudden recurring attacks of motor, sensory or psychic malfunction that may occur with or without loss of consciousness or convulsive seizures.

    For some with epilepsy treatment with drugs in necessary at all times while others may not need or desire to use prescription medication to assist with the management of the disease. No matter which of these two categories you may fall under, ...

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  • Facts About Epilepsy
    By: Gray Rollins | - A neurological disorder that affects the nervous system, epilepsy is also known as the seizure disorder. In fact, epilepsy is often diagnosed after a person has had 2-3 seizures that were not brought on by any known medical condition. A seizure refers to sudden high-voltage electrical activity in the brain, and it affects a persons feelings or actions for a short span of time. Seizures can be so mild as to go unnoticed or be intensely disturbing in their ferocity. The cause of an epilep ...
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