PCL200H1 Chapter Notes - Chapter 11: Temporal Lobe Epilepsy, Partial Seizure, Absence Seizure
12 Dec 2019
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Types of epilepsies: one way to categorize is based on the eeg pattern that occurs during a seizure event some types of seizures respond better to certain anti-seizure medications. Rst distinction is whether the electrical activity is con ned to a speci c region of the brain (partial) or it spreads throughout brain (generalized) Partial: simple partial - conscious, memory of attack, sensory/motor/emotion symptoms, complex partial - conscious but non-responsive, automatisms, no memory of attack. Causes of seizure disorders acute insults to brain - tumour, head trauma, high fever side effect of cocaine can also occur as part of a genetic syndrome, such as fragile-x syndrome, down"s syndrome, rett"s syndrome, or angelman"s syndrome. B6 de ciency or mitochondrial dysfunction will cause epilepsy. Idiopathic epilepsy - cause of seizure is unknown. Phenytoin: another commonly prescribed drug for tonic clonic and partial seizures. Its ability to reduce seizures is explained by its action at voltage-gated sodium channels.
