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9 unusual facts about epilepsy


Alan Igglesden

Igglesden suffered an epileptic fit when playing Minor counties cricket for Berkshire in 1999, and his medics discovered a non-cancerous brain tumour that was successfully treated by medication.

Groveland Correctional Facility

At the end of the 19th century, the state opened a facility for epileptics here.

Hill Top Preparatory School

Hill Top has a wide variety of students, many of whom have learning disabilities and disorder of neural developments such as ADHD, ADD, Asperger Syndrome, Autism, and Epilepsy.

Jeremy Jeffress

In late June 2013 while with the Triple-A Buffalo Bisons, Jeffress was diagnosed with juvenile epilepsy, which gave an explanation to the high anxiety and seizures that he had experienced through most of his adult life.

KCNH5

Mutations in this gene have been linked to cases of early onset Epilepsy.

Millfield Theatre

The house was converted into the St Davids Hospital for Epileptics in 1915 by the Metropolitan Asylums Board

Revolt of the Muckers

Jacobina Mentz, a local inhabitant, suffered from epileptic attacks, since childhood, then she was seen as the victim of a disorder of the nervous system, aggravated by elements of religious nature.

Second Battle of Bull Run

King was not with his division because he had suffered a serious epileptic attack earlier that day.

Theodore II Laskaris

In the midst of this crisis, Theodore II's epileptic condition worsened, and the Emperor died on August 18, 1258, leaving George Mouzalon as the regent for his minor son John IV Laskaris.


Albert Gjedde

Albert Gjedde’s collaborations focus on experiments with volunteer subjects and patients that explore the lesions and degeneration of brain tissue in disorders such as epilepsy, ludomania, Parkinson's disease, stroke, depression, and somatizing disorders, as well as disorders related to addiction.

All of the Lights

It was given a discretionary warning by Epilepsy Action, stating that the video "potentially triggers seizures for people with photosensitive epilepsy".

American Neuropsychiatric Association

Current SIGs include Clinical Practice, Conversion Disorders, Dementia, Developmental Disorders and Pediatrics, Early Career, Epilepsy, Forensics, Global Health, Movement Disorders, Neuroimaging and Traumatic Brain Injury.

Brain Research Foundation

Brain tumors, Multiple sclerosis, Alzheimer's and Parkinson's diseases, Epilepsy, ALS, learning disorders, depression and many others are disorders the BRF has helped raise awareness for.

Brain wave

Epilepsy Ireland, an organisation formerly known as "Brainwave – The Irish Epilepsy Association"

C14H18O3

Stiripentol, an anticonvulsant drug used in the treatment of epilepsy

Catamenial epilepsy

Estrogen can be found in the female body in various forms, all of which affect women with catamenial epilepsy.

Chlodwig, Landgrave of Hesse-Philippsthal-Barchfeld

His third son Prince Alexander Friedrich, who suffered from epilepsy, was sterilised by the Nazis on 27 September 1938, he died a year later.

Doan's Hollow Public School

However, even Doan's Hollow Public School and the Simcoe Lions School were forced to turn away people with Down syndrome and epilepsy in the early years of the special education pilot program.

Edgar Adrian, 1st Baron Adrian

His work on the abnormalities of the Berger rhythm paved the way for subsequent investigation in epilepsy and other cerebral pathologies.

Edwin Trevathan

• Fellow in Neurophysiology & Epilepsy, 1986–87, Boston Children's Hospital, Harvard Medical School

EEG-fMRI

The initial motivation for EEG-fMRI was in the field of research into epilepsy, and in particular the study of interictal epileptiform discharges (IED, or interictal spikes), and their generators, and of seizures.

Epilepsy and driving

The Epilepsy Foundation's Jeanne A. Carpenter Epilepsy Legal Defense Fund is dedicated to advancing the rights of people with epilepsy by changing discriminatory practices, policies and laws and to ending epilepsy-related discrimination and injustice through education and increased access to legal services for individuals with epilepsy through a system of managed referrals and legal support to a nationwide network of attorneys committed to this cause.

In the United States, the Federal Aviation Administration often prohibits anyone with epilepsy from being issued a pilot's license, even if the seizures are controlled by a medication or have completely ceased.

Epilepsy Is Dancing

"Epilepsy is Dancing" is the first single from Antony and the Johnsons' 2009 album The Crying Light, released on April 6 (April 7 in the US) licenced through Secretly Canadian (worldwide), and Rough Trade (Europe).

Epilepsy Society

The Epilepsy Society has close partnerships with the National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery (NHNN) and the UCL Institute of Neurology, both located in Queen Square, London.

Evelyn Fox

Fox, who was General Secretary of the National Association for Mental Health (NAMH – now known as MIND) in the late 1940s, along with Tyler Fox (no relation), Medical Director of the Epilepsy Colony at Lingfield, Surrey and Irene Gairdner, a social science graduate from the London School of Economics, were the driving forces for the creation of the British Epilepsy Association (BEA).

Febrile infection-related epilepsy syndrome

Intravenous immunoglobulin treatment is being explored as an option to treat this form of epilepsy.

H. Houston Merritt

The technique he used, along with Tracy Putnam, to identify this compound ushered in the modern era of drug therapy for epilepsy.

Harinath Policharla

Dr. Policharla completed his residency in Neurology at Wayne State University in Detroit, Michigan and is Board Certified in Sleep Medicine, Clinical Neurophysiology, and Epilepsy.

Health effects of 3D

In case of presenting PSE (Photosensitive epilepsy), precautions should be taken.

Ismael Morandini

It was there that he joined the group of Chilean director Sebastian Mancilla Olivares, where the play "La Enfermedad Incurable" where accepts being "Juan Marchetti" a boy who is attacked every night by epilepsy and chronic migraine is incorporated was there where he shares the spotlight with the talented but unknown actresses Lu Rodriguez and Juliana Reyes and the introducing Az Martinez, who represented the same part of the child but.

Issues for people with epilepsy

Depression is very common among people with epilepsy, with rates as high as 20% for those whose seizures are successfully controlled, and 60% for those with uncontrolled seizures.

John Alario

Alario has membership in the Knights of Columbus, Louisiana Epilepsy Association, Louisiana International Deep Water Gulf Transfer Terminal Authority and the Westwego Volunteer Fire Department.

Kirche am Steinhof

Among the numerous saints attending the ceremony is Saint Dymphna the patron saint of those afflicted by epilepsy or mental illness.

Lundborg

Unverricht–Lundborg disease (abbreviated ULD or EPM1), the most common form of progressive myoclonic epilepsy

Lurcher

The Des Dillon novel My Epileptic Lurcher is loosely based on the author's life and his lurcher Bailey, who suffers from epilepsy.

Miss March

Later that night, Tucker broke into the hospital while Eugene was asleep, stating they had to leave on their trip now, as opposed to 3 days later, as Tucker had an incident involving Candace and accidentally forgetting she has seizures caused by strobe lights as a side effect of her epilepsy.

Montreal Neurological Institute and Hospital

The international scientific community especially recognizes the MNI for its epilepsy research and treatment, brain imaging, cognitive neuroscience, neuroimmunology, complex neural systems, as well as for its treatment of neuromuscular disease.

Penfield's technique for epilepsy neurosurgery became known as the Montreal procedure.

National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery

It was merged in 1948 with the Maida Vale Hospital for Nervous Diseases (originally called The London Infirmary for Epilepsy and Paralysis), which in turn owed its foundation in 1866 to a German, Julius Althaus.

Perro de Presa Canario

Other reported health problems include patellar luxation and patellar evulsions, skin cysts, epilepsy, osteochondrodysplasias, demodectic mange and cryptorchidism and Canine leishmaniasis.

Prince John

Prince John of the United Kingdom (1905-1919), the youngest son of King George V, a fragile boy who suffered from epilepsy and was possibly autistic.

QTQ

Wally Lewis was the weekday sports presenter until December 2006, when following an on-air incident, it was publicly revealed he had epilepsy.

Rett syndrome

An atypical form of RTT, characterized by infantile spasms or early onset epilepsy, can also be caused by a mutation to the gene encoding cyclin-dependent kinase-like 5 (CDKL5).

Sensory processing

Dr. Wilder Penfield and his colleague Herbert Jasper developed the Montreal procedure using an electrode to stimulate different parts of the brain to determine which parts were the cause of the epilepsy.

The Crying Light

A music video for the single "Epilepsy Is Dancing" was produced by The Wachowskis and featured Johanna Constantine, SF choreographer Sean Dorsey and the design of painters Tino Rodríguez and Virgo Paraiso.

The Daniel Jordan Fiddle Foundation

It is a collaborative effort among DJF, The Epilepsy Foundation of New Jersey, Autism Family Services of New Jersey, and Dr. Ruth Nass, Professor of Child Neurology and Child and Adolescent Psychiatry at New York University School of Medicine and a nationally recognized pediatric behavioral neurologist.


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