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England Journal Of Medicine Controlled Trial
1,965 wordsBy Herbert Macomber 1. What is a febrile seizure? Febrile convulsions (FC) or seizures (FS) are clonic or tonic-clonic seizures that most often occur in infancy or childhood, mainly occurring between four months and six years of age, with fever but without evidence of intracranial infection, antecedent epilepsy, or other definable cause. That is why they are often referred to as 'fever seizures' or 'febrile seizures. ' Most of the time when children have a seizure, or a convulsion, it's caused b...
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Part Of The Brain Areas Of The Brain
2,501 wordsNeuropsychology studies the relation between brain function and behavior or human behavior as based on the function of human brain. Although the term itself is relatively new (it dates from the 20 th century), the major ideas of the field covered by it have a rather long history. Its current profile is determined mostly by the brain hypothesis (the brain is the source of behavior) and neuron hypothesis (the unit of brain structure and function is the neuron). A general overview of issues brings ...
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Ct Scan Five Minutes
1,720 wordsEpilepsy In this report I plan to give a general overview of what epilepsy is. I will try to give examples and types of seizures, treatments, and in general some insight into the whole subject matter. Many people regard epileptic seizures as a disease while, in fact, they are not. A disease rather is more an illness, which tends to imply sickness and being in poor health. Since epilepsy certainly is not that I don t think it has any reference or relativity to the term disease. Since there really...
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Type Of Epilepsy Genetic Disorder Chromosome
408 wordsEpilepsy is a genetic disorder that affects the parts of the brain similar to a computer. These parts communicate electronically. When this cant take place a seizure occurs. When a person has a series of recurring seizures they are usually diagnosed with epilepsy. People with the disorder have an electrical abnormity in there brain. Someone with the disorder will commonly have seizures and some may have asthma. Hippocrates the Greek physician is thought to have been the first to realize that epi...
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Marijuana For Medicinal Purposes Institute Of Medicine
934 wordsMarijuana: A new medicine? In society today, there are many serious diseases that plague nations all across the world. Diseases like Glaucoma, Epilepsy, Parkinsons disease, and migraine headaches. What do all of these serious illnesses have in common? Every one of theses sicknesses can be cured or helped by the use of Marijuana. Throughout this paper I will discuss the positive aspects of Marijuana and the negative aspects. This issue has been raising a lot of eyebrows ever since scientific evid...
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Central Nervous System Corpus Callosum
4,493 wordsSplit-Brain Psychology A Paper by: David Norelid Imagine being asked to sing Mary Had a Little Lamb and not being able to remember the words but only being able to hum the tune, or knowing the full lyrics, but only being able to bellow out what most closely resembles the cry of an abandoned calf. You cannot sing and remember the words at the same time because your brain hemispheres have been severed from each other. Imagine trying to play the piano, while one hand wants to play Rachmaninov, and ...
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