Flashcards: Epilepsy

Absence seizures are one of several kinds of seizures.

Hippocampal sclerosis (HS) is a neuropathological condition with severe neuronal cell loss and gliosis in the hippocampus, specifically in the CA-1 (Cornu Ammonis area 1) and subiculum of the hippocampus.

Rasmussen's encephalitis, also known as chronic focal encephalitis (CFE), is a rare inflammatory neurological disease, characterized by frequent and severe seizures, loss of motor skills and speech, hemiparesis (paralysis on one side of the body), encephalitis (inflammation of the brain), and dementia.

Epilepsy is a group of neurological diseases characterized by epileptic seizures.

Trismus, or Lockjaw, refers to reduced opening of the jaws caused by spasm of the muscles of mastication, or more generally to any instance limited mouth opening stemming from a variety of causes.

Status epilepticus (SE) is an epileptic seizure of greater than five minutes or more than one seizure within a five-minute period without the person returning to normal between them.

MERRF syndrome (or Myoclonic Epilepsy with Ragged Red Fibers) is a mitochondrial disease.

An aura is a perceptual disturbance experienced by some with migraines or seizures before either the headache or seizure begins.

Temporal lobe epilepsy (TLE) is a chronic disorder of the nervous system characterized by recurrent, unprovoked focal seizures (also known as partial seizures) that originate in the temporal lobe of the brain and last about one or two minutes.

Dravet syndrome, also known as severe myoclonic epilepsy of infancy (SMEI), is a type of epilepsy with seizures that are often triggered by hot temperatures or fever.

La Enfermedad Incurable (The Incurable Disease) is a 1996 play by Sebastian Mancilla Olivares, a Chilean playwright and actor.

Corpus callosotomy is a palliative surgical procedure for the treatment of seizures.

An epileptic seizure (colloquially a fit) is a brief episode of signs or symptoms due to abnormal excessive or synchronous neuronal activity in the brain.

Electricity is a 2014 English film directed by Bryn Higgins, starring Agyness Deyn, Lenora Crichlow and Christian Cooke.

Cloudy Times (Spanish: El tiempo nublado) is a 2014 documentary film directed by Arami Ullon about her relationship with her ageing mother, who suffers from epilepsy and Parkinson's disease.

On the Sacred Disease is a work of the Hippocratic Corpus, written in 400 BCE.

Tinkers (2009) is the first novel by American author Paul Harding.

The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down: A Hmong Child, Her American Doctors, and the Collision of Two Cultures is a 1997 book by Anne Fadiman that chronicles the struggles of a Hmong refugee family from Houaysouy, Sainyabuli Province, Laos, the Lees, and their interactions with the health care system in Merced, California.

Sudden unexpected death in epilepsy (SUDEP) is a fatal complication of epilepsy.

Complex partial status epilepticus (CPSE) is one of the non-convulsive forms of status epilepticus, a rare form of epilepsy defined by its recurrent nature.

Ictal refers to a physiologic state or event such as a seizure, stroke, or headache.