Seizure Syndromes

Seizure Syndromes

An epileptic seizure is caused by excessive and/or hypersynchronous electrical neuronal activity. It can manifest as alteration in mental state, tonic or clonic movements, convulsions and various other psychic symptoms.

Seizure Syndromes

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  • Realtime Detection, Quantification, Warning

    The aim of abating seizures in a spatio-temporally selective manner is not a modern one. As early as 150 AD, Pelops from Alexandria, the teacher of Galen, was reported to have aborted what would...

  • Seizure Semiology, Neurotransmitter Receptors

    Ongoing research has elucidated a large variety of genes, proteins and enzyme products that are affected in epilepsy. Despite the pharmacological advances achieved by the development of...

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