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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.
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]
A seizure is a sudden change in behavior, movement or consciousness due to abnormal electrical activity in the brain. [3] [6] Seizures can look different in different people.. It can be uncontrolled shaking of the whole body (tonic-clonic seizures) or a person spacing out for a few seconds (absence seizure
[1] [4] [5] [19] [41] Ecstatic seizures have often been referred to as "Dostoevsky's epilepsy" as he was the first and among the most notable documented cases of the condition. [ 13 ] [ 41 ] [ 42 ] [ 43 ] Dostoevsky had an average of about one seizure a month from age 20 or 25 years until his death at 59 years of age, which would be a total of ...
Despite the lack of evidence linking seizure type to mental health, patients with frontal-lobe epilepsy have been reported to score lower on depression scales than those with temporal-lobe epilepsy. Aggression, confusion, and hyperactivity in children with epilepsy are signs of pre-ictal psychiatric symptoms that are considered to be associated ...
Generalized epilepsy with febrile seizures plus (GEFS+) is a syndromic autosomal dominant disorder where affected individuals can exhibit numerous epilepsy phenotypes. [1] GEFS+ can persist beyond early childhood (i.e., 6 years of age).
Photosensitive epilepsy (PSE) is a form of epilepsy in which seizures are triggered by visual stimuli that form patterns in time or space, such as flashing lights, bold, regular patterns, or regular moving patterns. PSE affects approximately one in 4,000 people (5% of those with epilepsy).
Epilepsy can have tremendous social issues for patients. Social acceptance from others is a common challenge. Though persons with epilepsy are otherwise just like anyone else, there are stigmas associated with epilepsy that can affect one's acceptance among others. Depression is common due to impaired social acceptance. [1]