Epilepsy - Symptoms and causes - Mayo Clinic
2023年10月14日 · Epilepsy — also known as a seizure disorder — is a brain condition that causes recurring seizures. There are many types of epilepsy. In some people, the cause can be identified. In others, the cause is not known. Epilepsy is common.
Epilepsy - Diagnosis and treatment - Mayo Clinic
2023年10月14日 · Ask Mayo Clinic - Epilepsy. Lily Wong-Kisiel, M.D., Pediatric Neurologist, Mayo Clinic: What are the tests for epilepsy? Epilepsy is a syndrome diagnosis. It's a symptom that describes brainwave abnormalities. There are underlying causes that need to be evaluated.
Epilepsy - Overview - Mayo Clinic
2024年11月22日 · Seizures remain inadequately controlled in about a third of people with epilepsy. As a Level 4 comprehensive epilepsy center, Mayo Clinic is positioned to identify the best treatment for people whose epilepsy doesn't respond to medicines.
Seizures - Symptoms and causes - Mayo Clinic
2024年11月1日 · A seizure is a sudden burst of electrical activity in the brain. It can cause changes in behavior, movements, feelings and levels of consciousness. Epilepsy is defined as having two or more seizures at least 24 hours apart that don't have a known cause. But epilepsy doesn't cause all seizures.
Explaining epilepsy - Mayo Clinic
2023年4月28日 · Around 3 million people in the U.S. have epilepsy, making it the fourth most common neurological disease after migraine, stroke and Alzheimer's. Epilepsy happens as a result of abnormal electrical brain activity, also known as a seizure, kind of like an electrical storm inside your head.
Epilepsy - Care at Mayo Clinic
2023年10月14日 · Mayo Clinic epilepsy care teams have experience treating epilepsy to eliminate seizures or reduce the frequency and intensity of seizures in children and adults. Treatment options at Mayo Clinic include medicines, vagus nerve stimulation, surgery, awake brain surgery, ketogenic diet and more.
Seizures - Diagnosis and treatment - Mayo Clinic
2024年11月1日 · You see, an epileptic seizure is an abnormal electrical disturbance of the brain. The device is implanted under the skin, and four electrodes are attached to the outer layers of your brain. The device monitors brain waves, and when it senses abnormal electrical activity it fires electrical stimulation and stops the seizures.
Epilepsy: Symptoms, Causes, Complications and What You Can Do
2013年11月19日 · Mayo Clinic Health System neurologist Andrew Reeves, M.D., helps explain epilepsy and seizures. Symptoms and types of seizures. Categorized as a spectrum disorder because of the wide range of causes and effects, epilepsy impacts people differently.
Epilepsy - Doctors and departments - Mayo Clinic
2023年10月14日 · Mayo Clinic researchers have developed and studied many diagnostic and treatment tools for epilepsy. They include magnetic resonance imaging, subtraction ictal SPECT coregistered to MRI (SISCOM), electroencephalography, ketogenic diet, deep brain stimulation, epilepsy surgery and many others.
The latest options for treating epilepsy | Mayo Clinic Connect
2022年11月21日 · Epilepsy is a neurological disorder in which brain activity becomes abnormal, causing seizures or periods of unusual behavior, sensations, and sometimes loss of awareness. Anyone can develop epilepsy and epilepsy affects both males and females of all races, ethnic backgrounds, and ages.
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