This 22-year-old woman presented for evaluation of syncope. Several weeks previously, she was watching the end of the movie Hannibal when Dr. Lecter was slicing pieces of the exposed brain of a ...

A convulsion is an episode in which you experience rigidity and uncontrolled muscle spasms along with altered consciousness. The spasms cause jerky motions that generally last a minute or two.

The baseline clinical characteristics are shown in Table I. Neurologists referred 64 patients, but nine were excluded from the study by exclusion criteria. The study included 55 consecutive patients: ...

Recurrent seizures are debilitating and can sometimes, be fatal. The onset and presentation of seizures vary significantly among epilepsy patients. Of more than 25 categories of seizure presentations ...

ELECTRIC convulsive therapy has been used for the last three years at the Foxborough State Hospital and has become the chief form of physical therapy in the treatment of psychoses of psychogenic ...

This page lists all known medications that could potentially lead to 'Convulsive seizure' as a side effect. It's important to note that mild side effects are quite common with medications. The ...

THE present emergency has provided an unusually abundant opportunity for the study of syncope, or fainting, in blood donors. Although not in itself serious, fainting results in loss of time to the ...

From "Treatment of Convulsive Status Epilepticus in Children and Adults" Epilepsy Currents 16.1 January/February 2016. Disclaimer: AAAS and EurekAlert! are not responsible for the accuracy of news ...

Focal cortical dysplasia (FCD), a local malformation of cortical development, is the most common cause of pharmacoresistant epilepsy associated with life-long neurocognitive impairments. It remains ...

Extract: In a cohort of 18,500 newborn infants, those who had experienced one or more convulsions were studied. Data were available for the unaffected as well as for the affected children. All ...