HSCI 301 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Anticonvulsant, Febrile Seizure, Meningitis
1 Dec 2016
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Chapter 12: epilepsy: define the neurological disorder of epilepsy, what determines the symptoms, and what are 2 broad classifications of epilepsy. Epilepsy: chronic neurological disorder with seizures: seizure from abnormal/excessive/hypersynchronous firing of cns neurons. Can result in loss of consciousness, abnormal movements, atypical/odd: where the neurons are firing determines the symptoms behavior, and distorted perceptions. Parietal/occipital lobe hyperactivity = visual, auditory, or olfactory hallucinations: physiological factors and environmental factors can help trigger epilepsy. Physiologic triggers: blood gases, ph, electrolyte imbalance, blood glucose levels. Environmental triggers: sleep deprivation, alcohol intake, stress. Myoclonic short episodes of muscle contractions that may recur. Febrile seizures accompanied by high fever. (do not necessarily. Status epilepticus 2 or more seizures occur without recovery of. Tonic-clonic- continuous contraction phase followed by rapid. Absence- brief abrupt and self-limiting loss of consciousness full consciousness in between them contraction & relaxation phase.
