Epilepsy Research Papers
About one percent of the world’s population, 65 million people, have epilepsy, and many famous people including “Julius Caesar, Czar Peter the Great of Russia, Pope Pius IX, the writer Fryoto Dostoevesky, the poet Lord Byron, and others” (History 1) rose to greatness despite the oppression put on those with the condition. Putting all that aside, epilepsy is a well-known yet scarcely discussed medical condition. Defined as ‘sudden reoccur episodes of sensory disturbance, loss of consciousness, or convulsions, associated with abnormal electrical activity in the brain’ by Oxford Dictionaries, epilepsy makes everyday life difficult, but can be treated and cared for beyond many people’s knowledge.
To begin, epilepsy is a disease that has been documented …show more content…
On the contrary, causes of epilepsy range from genetic disorders to simple head trauma. According to the Mayo Clinic’s article Epilepsy: Symptoms and Causes, “Some types of epilepsy, which are categorized by the type of seizure you experience or the part of the brain that is affected, run in families” (Epilepsy: Symptoms and Causes 1). This evidence proves that genetics are a big influence on the appearance of epilepsy in people of any age. In conclusion, epilepsy affects many body systems but its main effect is on the nervous system, it is an old disease seeing that the Greeks has witnessed and documented it, and it can be caused by both genetics and physical …show more content…
This condition has multiple symptoms including atonic seizures, causes spasms and can provoke the patient to fall, the myoclonic seizures, brief jerks and twitches in the arms and legs, and absence seizures which are described as simply staring into space or smacking lips. The diagnosis of epilepsy is done with either neurological examination or blood tests, and treatment is drug therapy. Future treatments are hopefully going to allow epileptic patients who resist drugs to finally get the relief they need; maybe even without side effects. Nonetheless, epilepsy, being it is so called ‘violent’ and ‘estranged’, is nothing more than a simple nervous system disease that can be treated with anticonvulsants and
To begin, epilepsy is a disease that has been documented …show more content…
On the contrary, causes of epilepsy range from genetic disorders to simple head trauma. According to the Mayo Clinic’s article Epilepsy: Symptoms and Causes, “Some types of epilepsy, which are categorized by the type of seizure you experience or the part of the brain that is affected, run in families” (Epilepsy: Symptoms and Causes 1). This evidence proves that genetics are a big influence on the appearance of epilepsy in people of any age. In conclusion, epilepsy affects many body systems but its main effect is on the nervous system, it is an old disease seeing that the Greeks has witnessed and documented it, and it can be caused by both genetics and physical …show more content…
This condition has multiple symptoms including atonic seizures, causes spasms and can provoke the patient to fall, the myoclonic seizures, brief jerks and twitches in the arms and legs, and absence seizures which are described as simply staring into space or smacking lips. The diagnosis of epilepsy is done with either neurological examination or blood tests, and treatment is drug therapy. Future treatments are hopefully going to allow epileptic patients who resist drugs to finally get the relief they need; maybe even without side effects. Nonetheless, epilepsy, being it is so called ‘violent’ and ‘estranged’, is nothing more than a simple nervous system disease that can be treated with anticonvulsants and