PHAR 301 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Temporal Lobe Epilepsy, Febrile Seizure, Generalised Tonic-Clonic Seizure

• School: McGill University
• Department: Pharmacology and Therapeutics
• Course: PHAR 301
• Professor: Barbara Hales

Document Summary

Commercial drug names are always capitalized, generic names are not. Names of people mentioned in lecture need not be memorized. Cns drugs have often been discovered by serendipity. Temporary alterations in brain function associated with: movements. Seizures are particularly common early and late in. In childhood, they are often associated with fevers life o: you can get a seizure but that does not necessarily mean you have epilepsy, seizures become more common again later in old age. Spontaneous - not that many triggers for seizures. Febrile seizure - incidence of seizures due to fever. Lifetime prevalence - incidence of seizures throughout lifetime. Joan of arc - seizures were triggered by the sound of church bells. It looks into the cortex but the seizure might be sub-cortical. Unless you have seizures very frequently, you might not have the seizure by the time you get to the hospital. Eeg before, during and after a clonic convulsion.