PSYC3338 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Pyramidal Cell, Cerebral Cortex, Electroencephalography
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Think about how plasticity contributes to the development of the disease. As well as ways to treat it. A lot of people have a single seizure at least once in their lifetime you can have it from a fever, a fall, dehydration, one seizure isn"t epilepsy repeated seizures is epilepsy. Seizure - sudden brief period of abnormal electrical discharge in the brain - altered consciousness, involuntary movements, conclusions. Epilepsy - spontaneously recurring seizures, can be 100 or more/day. Frequently the first sign of a brain tumor is a seizure. Look on the slides for this information! (eeg) electroencephalogram. Put electrodes on the person"s skull and look at electrical activity under electrodes to look at amplitude and regularities of brain waves. Brain waves differ in remarkable ways when having a seizure. Used to diagnose epilepsy (and sleep disorders) When you do an eeg recording, you can do it right through hair (no need to shave)
