Pharmacology 3620 Lecture Notes - Lecture 16: Benzodiazepine, Etiology, Gaba Receptor
23 Jan 2015
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Epilepsy is a chronic neurological disorder characterized by recurrent seizures. A seizure is an abnormal synchronization of electrical neuronal activity. Epileptic seizure is a transient occurrence of signs and/or symptoms due to abnormal excessive or synchronous neuronal activity in the brain . 70% of people with epilepsy can be treated successfully. 30% cannot respond to the medications they are treated with. You don"t revert from epilepsy and you usually don"t die from it. If you get epilepsy, you have it forever and it doesn"t kill you. It is the 2nd most costly disease in society. Epilepsy is not like having a heart attack in your brain. It is high synchronise (or amplitude), low frequency activity. You have epilepsy if you only have seizures at a regular rate. Between 0. 5 and 1 % of the world population have some form of epilepsy.
