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abnormal brain activity
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People with this condition have no other neurological problems, but sometimes have a family history of seizures or epilepsy.Some other more common causes of epilepsy include:.Stroke or transient ischemic attack( TIA) Illnesses that cause the brain...
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Doctors rule out conditions that cause symptoms that resemble epilepsy, including small strokes(transient ischemic attacks, or TIAs), fainting(syncope), pseudoseizures, and sleep attacks( narcolepsy).Neuropsychological testing uncovers learning or...
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Genetic factors contribute to about 40% of all epilepsy cases. Most of the generalized epilepsy syndromes and some of the partial epilepsy syndromes have an inherited component.
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Epilepsy sometimes is the result of trauma at birth. Such neonatal causes include insufficient.oxygen to the brain, head injury, heavy bleeding, incompatibility between a woman's blood and the blood of her baby, or infection immediately before, af...
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Genetic factors contribute to about 40% of all epilepsy cases. Most of the generalized epilepsy syndromes and some of the partial epilepsy syndromes have an inherited component.
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Such causes include insufficient oxygen to the brain; head injury; heavy bleeding or incompatibility between a woman's blood and the blood of her newborn baby; and infection immediately before, after, or at the time of birth.head trauma resulting ...
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Epilepsy is sometimes the result of trauma at the time of birth. Such causes include insufficient oxygen to the brain; head injury; heavy bleeding or incompatibility between a woman's blood and the blood of her newborn baby; and infection immediat...
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Likewise, the mesial temporal abnormalities contribute to the epileptogenicity(seizure potential) of that region. Although these pathologies are the most common findings in cases of mesial TLE, other lesions can be the suspected cause of epilepsy ...
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Epilepsy has many causes that, in part, have an affect on the clinical presentation of symptoms. In order for epilepsy to occur, there must be an underlying physical problem in the brain.
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