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Hippocrates (470–c. 360 BC) classified mental disorders, including paranoia, epilepsy, mania and melancholia. [23] Hippocrates mentions the practice of bloodletting in the fifth century BC. [24] [25] Through long contact with Greek culture, and their eventual conquest of Greece, the Romans absorbed many Greek (and other) ideas on medicine. [26]
140,000 (2021) [ 9 ] Epilepsy is a group of non-communicable neurological disorders characterized by recurrent epileptic seizures. [ 10 ] An epileptic seizure is the clinical manifestation of an abnormal, excessive, and synchronized electrical discharge in the neurons. [ 1 ] The occurrence of two or more unprovoked seizures defines epilepsy. [ 11 ]
A seizure is a period of symptoms due to abnormally excessive or synchronous neuronal activity in the brain. [6] Outward effects vary from uncontrolled shaking movements involving much of the body with loss of consciousness (tonic-clonic seizure), to shaking movements involving only part of the body with variable levels of consciousness (focal seizure), to a subtle momentary loss of awareness ...
On the Sacred Disease is a work of the Hippocratic Corpus, written about 400 B.C. Its authorship cannot be confirmed, so is regarded as dubious. The treatise is thought to contain one of the first recorded observations of epilepsy in humans. The author explains these phenomena by the flux of the phlegm flowing from the brain into the veins ...
3-D sensory and motor homunculus models at the Natural History Museum, London. In the process of treating epilepsy, Wilder Penfield produced maps of the location of various functions (motor, sensory, memory, vision) in the brain. [43] [44] He summarized his findings in a 1950 book called The Cerebral Cortex of Man. [45]
Coordinates: 37°24′57″N 79°7′11″W. The Virginia State Colony for the Epileptics and Feeble Minded was a state run institution for those considered to be “ Feeble minded ” or those with severe mental impairment. The colony opened in 1910 near Lynchburg, Virginia, in Madison Heights with the goal of isolating those with mental ...
The end of history is a political and philosophical concept that supposes that a particular political, economic, or social system may develop that would constitute the end-point of humanity's sociocultural evolution and the final form of human government. A variety of authors have argued that a particular system is the "end of history ...
8-630. MedlinePlus. 007474. [ edit on Wikidata] Electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) or electroshock therapy (EST) is a psychiatric treatment during which a generalized seizure (without muscular convulsions) is electrically induced to manage refractory mental disorders. [ 1 ] Typically, 70 to 120 volts are applied externally to the patient's head ...