Epilepsy Epilepsy is a neurological condition that produces seizures affecting a variety of mental and physical functions. Seizures are the most prominent characteristic of epilepsy. Seizures are caused by sudden burst of electrical activity in the brain. Although there are forty different types of this disorder each one represents itself with a unique treatment, prognosis and combination of seizure type. There is a variety of seizures a person with epilepsy may experience depending on which part of the brain is affected by the electrical burst of activity in the brain.
Epilepsy Problems/Symptoms! Epilepsy is a neurological disorder characterized by unprovoked, recurring seizures that disrupt the nervous system and can cause mental and physical dysfunction. All types of Epilepsy share things like uncontrolled electrical discharge from nerve cells in the cerebral cortex. This part of the brain controls higher mental functions, general movement, and the functions of the internal organs in the abdominal cavity, perception, and behavioral reactions. They put Epilepsy into two different categories, which are usually based on a specific mechanism involved in the seizure and where the seizure is located in the brain.
Surprisingly there is more inborn errors metabolism, intracranial hemorrhage, maternal drug use, finally there is infection. Potential causes of epilepsy for infants and children are fever which are febrile seizures. Brian tumors rarely cause this effect, infections. Potential causes of epilepsy for children and adults, congenital condition, for example down's syndrome, angelman's syndrome, tuberous sclerosis, and neurofibromatosis, genetic factors, progressive brain disease this one is rare, finally there is head trauma. Potential causes of epilepsy for elderly, stroke, alzheimer's disease,
Kellie Brouillette EDCI 2700 EPILEPSY Epilepsy is a neurological condition, which affects the nervous system. Epilepsy is also known as a seizure disorder. It is usually diagnosed after a person has had at least two seizures that were not caused by some known medical condition like alcohol withdrawal or extremely low blood sugar. Sometimes, according to the International League Against Epilepsy, epilepsy can be diagnosed after one seizure, if a person has a condition that places them at high risk for having another. A seizure is a sudden surge of electrical activity in the brain that usually affects how a person feels or acts for a short time.
THE BIOLOGICAL APPROACH TO PSYCHOPATHOLOGY Introduction The earliest approach to explaining the causes of abnormal behaviour was the 'demonological approach’. This saw abnormal behaviour as being caused by 'demons' and 'evil spirits' possessing a person. According to this approach, the best way of treating abnormal behaviour was therefore to release these demons and spirits, by methods such as trephining. In the eighteenth century (‘The Age of Enlightenment'), this approach was abandoned as people began to see abnormal behaviour as a type of illness ('mental illness') rather than supernatural possession. In fact, the ancient Greeks had recognised that abnormalities such as epilepsy might be caused by brain disorders, but it was not until physiologists like von Haller and Greisinger argued that the brain played a crucial role in causing abnormal behaviour that the biological approach ‘took off’.
In children, most hypothalamic tumors are gliomas. Gliomas are a common type of brain tumor that results from the abnormal growth of glial cells, which are a type of cells that support nerve cells. Gliomas can occur at any age but they are often more aggressive in adults than children. In adults, tumors in the hypothalamus are more likely to be metastatic (resulting from the spread of cancer form another organ to the hypothalamus) than they are when they occur in children (2003, Kalat). Symptoms of the tumor: Brain tumors have a variety of symptoms ranging from headache to stroke.
When alcohol acts on the CNS, intoxication occurs, affecting emotional and sensory function, judgment, memory and learning ability. Smell and taste are dulled. The ability to withstand pain increases as the BAL rises. Different parts of the brain seem to be affected by alcohol at different rates, creating alternate periods of restlessness and stupor. Long-term effects of alcohol on the central nervous system include tolerance, dependency, and irreversible damage.
Bipolar I Disorder Bipolar I Disorder is a complex mood disorder that disrupts the quality of life for an individual with the occurrence of an episode or episodes known as Manic Episode during the course of the condition. According to Lyons and Martin (2009), a manic episode is described as a period of time in which an individual becomes highly talkative, hyperactive, easily irritated, over excited, very outspoken, and is not aware of their psychotic symptoms. Sometimes a person will only experience one episode (single manic episode), but this is rare because many times it is extremely common for that same person to experience another episode. The majority of people diagnosed with Bipolar I Disorder will indeed undergo the combination of two distinguished episodes at one time. Another episode is commonly known as a Depressive Episode.
aBNOR Abnormal Psychology University of Phoenix PSY/410 January 31,2010 Abnormal Psychology 1 Abnormal Psychology People have always suffered from abnormal personalities, though they weren’t always understood as such. Most people thought them to be the work of demons, ghosts or evil spirits. The traces of abnormality were removed by use of trepanation. Trepanation is a procedure in which the physician makes a hole in the skull by way of drilling, and this is said to increase the functionality of the brain which in turn is supposed to increase over all well being. This method was used to treat the mental illnesses as well as seizures, and anything thought to be caused by the brain being unbalanced.
“Seizures are symptoms of abnormal brain function. With the exception of very young children and the elderly, the cause of the abnormal function is usually not identifiable (Epilepsy Foundation, 2013).” Types or causes of seizures are “symptomatic, which can be linked to identifiable diseases or brain abnormalities and cryptogenic seizures, which are diagnosed when no causes can be found. Idiopathic or primary seizures are diagnosed when a genetic, or family, cause is suspected (Epilepsy Foundation, 2013).” An EEG, or Electroencephalogram, monitors the brain activity and maps out the origin of a seizure. The EEG is used in diagnosing a patient who suffers from