PSYC 301 Lecture Notes - Lecture 22: Generalised Epilepsy, Convulsion, Sleep Deprivation
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The essence of seizures occasional, excessive, and disorder discharge on muscles : brain activity is spontaneous (not form stimulus) and really excessive. Standard of epilepsy is if you have 2 unprovoked seizures within a 24 hour period. Really strong brain activity cause firing in synchrony in generalized seizures. There are many things that can cause an oncoming seizure: stress, sleep deprivation. Reflex epilepsy: (check recording: brushing teeth, sometimes orgasms. Seizures don"t need to have a behavioral output. It refers specifically to brain activity: convulsion motor activity = shaking, seizures can cause convulsions but they are not convulsions. If you cause the brain to become hyper excitable it can lead to seizure activity. ~1% will be diagnosed with epilepsy: there are drugs to deal with seizures, but nothing to deal with epilepsy itself. Ictal during seizure: postictal anytime after seizure and prior to next one. Interictal when you"re not in seizure zone at all.