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Seizures Learning Center
Female: The word seizure is a general term used to describe the medical condition in which too may brain cells become excited simultaneously. Male: T...
Travis: What you're seeing someone have right now is an uncontrollable seizure. A lot of folks have encountered, others having seizure they have no i...
Female speaker: During the 2006 Olympics goaltender, Chanda Gunn helped the USA Women's Ice Hockey team win bronze. She says her epilepsy was the las...
The cells in our brain communicate through electrical signals. So when that system goes array, it's not as systematic as it should be, then the signa...
Morgan Gottleib's Coping with Severe Seizures Part 1/3 Male: The maternal instinct to protect ones daughter is at the very heart of what it means to ...
Morgan Gottleib's Coping with Severe Seizures Part 2/3 Peggy: A lot of tears, a lot of Why is this happening to us? you know god whats happening why ...
A convulsion, basically, the child will normally go slightly rigid, and then they will start to shake, perhaps, they might foam at the mouth. Their j...
Generalized seizures which involve a wide spread electrical discharge across both sides of the brain come in variety of forms. Let us look at some co...
Female: Shes doing great. She loves working with the kids. The kids seem to like her and she feels that she is being productive and thats wonderful. ...
Jennifer Matthews: This cap is going to tell doctors exactly where Dawn Helton's seizures are happening in her brain. She's struggled with them for f...
Hi, I am Chip Meyers, a paramedic with the City of Alexandria Fire Department in Alexandria, Virginia. Next, we are going to talk about what to do if...
Why Autistic Children Are Prone to Seizures Mark: Hi, my name is Mark. I'm 26 years old. I'm in Austin. I am curios why is there a heightened risk fo...
Jeniffer Mathews: this is how Heidi Cline gets to school, to work, and back home; pedalling more than 35 miles a week. She doesn't drive a car becaus...
Understanding Partial Seizures Partial seizures which involved an electrical discharge in a limited area of the brain come in a variety of forms. Let...
Seizures can be confused with symptoms of a number of other conditions. For this reason, doctors rely upon four distinct methods to diagnose epilepsy...
Lucy Piper: Hello! I am Lucy Piper. One of the most frightening things that can happen is when your child has seizure convulsions, and there are lots...
Epilepsy effects nearly 3 million Americans, but who is really at risk? Robert S. Fishers Epilepsy can develop in any person at any age. Almost 1% of...
Wendy Turner: In todays health check Dr. Su Laurent the Consultant Pediatrician from Barnet Hospital and the baby channels medical advisor has joined...
A seizure is a symptom of many different disorders that can affect the brain not a disease in itself. In centurys pass, the word seizure refers to pe...
Although epilepsy has affected people for millions of years, myths about the disorder still abound. Let us look at some basic facts about epilepsy. U...
Vagal Nerve Stimulation for Epilepsy Jenny: My eight-year old and my three-year old have both been diagnosed with epilepsy. They dont have the violen...
Male Speaker: Approximately 335,000 Canadians have epilepsy with the majority being diagnosed before the age of 18 and 44% diagnosed before the age o...
Female: Epilepsy has attracted attention and had been a source of controversy throughout the ages. Let us look back at the history of this condition....
Male Speaker: 46 year-old Polly Siegel's epilepsy first appeared 15 years ago after she had a devastating bike accident. She recovered from her injur...
What is brain cancer? P. Mona Khanna: Well there are two types of brain cancer, there's primary brain cancer and there's secondary brain cancer. Prim...
The way I think of epilepsy is, epilepsy is an electrical storm of the brain. When Nathan is describing or was describing his common, when people fir...
Male 1: There is another technique we move in too quickly petit mal, what is petit mal? Male 2: Right, so petit mal again, one of those words that we...
Interviewer: Sometimes children get convulsions without fever there are many charts. One is called Grand Mal Epilepsy. What is Grand Mal Epilepsy? Do...
Male: Sometimes kids get seizures of without fever. It is called epilepsy. What is epilepsy? Male: Epilepsy is usually defined as having more than on...
Male: Some kids have staring spells and you get a neurologist and it said the kid may have a seizure what is all about? Male: Staring spells usually ...
Female 1: Dilantin is the brand name for phenytoin an epilepsy medication approved by the FDA in 1956. Female2: Phenytoin is a prescription medicatio...
Three million Americans have some form of epilepsy -- a condition that causes violent, sometimes dangerous seizures. A new surgery stops the seizures...
How to Cope with Child Epilepsy Part 2/2 Derricks situation is quite typical and that the seizures will come out of nowhere often for no apparent rea...
Speaker: The variety of problems that Pediatric Osteopathy can treat is extraordinary as well as more common childhood ailments here, the Osteopathic...
Female 1: Topamax is used to prevent seizures and migraines and was approved by the FDA in 1996. Female 2: Topiramate is a prescription medication wh...
Lamictal (Lamotrigine) Lamictal is the brand name for Lamotrigine, which is used to treat epilepsy and was approved by the FDA in 1994. Sandra Takami...
Dr. Phil McGraw discusses his interview with Casey Anthony's parents, Cindy and George Anthony. Cindy says her daughter suffered a grand mal seizure,...
Male Speaker: Suzy and Steven Hovland have been married for 15 years and they never imagined one day they would be parents. That's because Suzy has e...
Male Speaker: 42-year old Cynthia Rickmen who was constant mother of three was diagnosed with epilepsy, 17-years ago when she suddenly had a seizure....
Valerie Leary Davis: I literally had to hold down to the walls to walk from my bedroom to the bathroom, I was very weak. Dr. Dean Edell: The symptoms...
Female 1: Keppra is the brand name for levetiracetam and epilepsy medication approved by the FDA in 1999. Female 2: Levetiracetam is a prescription m...
Hypoglycemia: how to recognize it? What to do? Male: For the majority of people with Type I Diabetes, recognizing the signs of hypoglycemia can be re...
Depakote (Divalproex Sodium) Depakote is the brand name for Divalproex Sodium which is used to control seizures, migraines, and bipolar disorder and ...
Bob's story is a really nicely illustrates some of the issues that older people in particular face when they're diagnosed with epilepsy as far as qua...
Female Speaker: Klonopin is the brand name for Clonazepam. It was initially approved as an anticonvulsant and in 1997 and is commonly used for treati...
Female: Klonopin is the brand name for Clonazepam. It was initially approved as an anticonvulsant and in 1997 and it is commonly use for treating anx...
Female: Valium is the brand name for Diazepam a sedative which was approved by the FDA in 1963. Female: Diazepam is a prescription medication which i...
How Hemispherectomy Works Dr. Travis Stork: Honests Neurosurgeon Dr. Aaron Cohen from Clarian Health Methodist Hospital in Indianapolis is here with ...
Question: What is vagus nerve stimulation? Mark S. George: Well, the vagus nerve, we actually have two of them. They run in our necks, right here on ...
Dr. Dean Edell: People with lupus often experience fever, seizures, arthritis, skin and mouth illusions, heart damage and kidney failure. Dr. Huge Mc...
Male Speaker: Well, Cindy and Rob's 2 year old son Thomas has had seizures his whole life because he suffers from Tuberous Sclerosis. It is a disease...
Male1: If a child had a very high fever, was not focusing, the light bother his eyes and the pediatrician says that he is concerned about a serious i...
Male Speaker: There are two subjects I would like to briefly touch on and both are widely overlooked. The first is water and the second is protein. A...
Many patients with a kind of tumor that fits through our head which is a pituitarial lesion because of its location near the optic pathway will have ...
How to Cope with Child Epilepsy Part Derrick started having Epilepsy when he was in the first grade around Christmas time. Yeah I felt upset for Der...
Jake: Hi I'm Jake. I am 24. I am from Muncie, Indiana. I play lot of video games, and I was wondering can it cause seizures? Lisa Bernstein: Jake, vi...
Matt: I am Matt from New York, a good friend of mine has epilepsy and I was wondering what causes epilepsy and can it be controlled through medicatio...
Host: Im here today with Dr. Alen Cohen who is the Chief of Pediatric Neurosurgery at the Rainbow Babies and Children Hospital in Cleveland Ohio and ...
Jennifer Mathews: Marcia Wysong traveled three hours to undergo an experimental treatment for a life-altering disease. Marcia Wysong: What else do I ...
Hi, I am Chip Meyers, a paramedic with the City of Alexandria Fire Department in Alexandria, Virginia. Next, we are going to talk about how to treat ...
Male 1: You took everything out in 1992. We took it out about 10 years to pursue all that little trace. And outbreaks are not going down. They are go...
The Link Between Epilepsy and Autism Win: I'm Win from Honolulu, Hawaii. If a child has a seizure, are they more than likely just epileptic or is tha...
Hi! I am Chip Meyers; I am paramedic in the City of Alexandria Fire Department in Alexandria, Virginia. Today, we are going to talk about some basic ...
Host: As also in the news today that oh, there is about 5,000 people suing the makers of vaccines claiming vaccines that are cause of their autism. B...
How to Relieve a Baby's Fever Chills Dr Jim Sears: You mentioned your childs shivering when she has a fever and what that tells me is that her bodys ...
Dealing with Altered Life-threatening Events The other type of spells that we refer to or often are referred to is ALTE. This is Altered Life-threate...
Female Speaker: Elizabeth is the picture of health. Just a few months before this, she was hospitalized with a collapsed lung, complications of pneum...
Hi! I am Chip Meyers, paramedic with the City of Alexandria Fire Department. Today, we are going to talk about some basic first aid skills that could...
Hi! I am Chip Meyers; I am paramedic with the City of Alexandria Fire Department in Alexandria, Virginia. Next, we are going to talk about how to tre...
One point that I really want to emphasize is that there is a very heavy genetic determinant of Autism, and one way I can emphasize that is to just li...
Now just briefly if your child is burnt, how do you treat it? Well number one the soap and water, you should wash the burn, you should not scrub it b...
What Long QT Syndrome Is Dr. Travis Stork: Were talking about silent health threats and our next topic was suggested by Jan Smith from Produce the Do...
So if you watched the last video, you know that there are 17.5 teaspoons of sugar in a Pepsi. Now, a lot of people are going to wonder, okay, what's ...
Once preeclampsia is diagnosed then the treatment of the preeclampsia will vary depending on the age or stage of which the pregnancy is. Most preecla...
(Music playing) Female: Even if you are not keen on the idea of using nicotine replacement therapy, there are plenty of treatment options that can he...
