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The Possible Causes Of Epileptic Seizure

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Seizures are defined as unpredictable time-limit lapses of abnormal involuntary muscle movements and unregulated neuronal discharges in the brain, in which individual cannot control their onset or termination. Seizures usually last for no more than five minutes, followed by long postictal phase, which is a gradual return to the baseline. Seizures can include a wide spectrum of symptoms and can arise from any part of the brain. In addition, seizures can result from different diseases and health conditions, including Epilepsy, hypoglycemia, brain injuries, hypoxia, and other more factors (Shneker and Fountain 2003).
Epileptic seizure is defined by the International League Against Epilepsy (ILAE) as “a transient occurrence of signs and/or symptoms due to abnormal excessive and synchronous neuronal activity in the brain.” Most human epileptic seizures are result from cerebral cortex abnormalities, which cause an alteration of the neuronal discharges and synchronicity in the brain (Engel 2013). …show more content…

The definition of epilepsy requires the occurrence of at least one epileptic seizure” (Engel 2013).
Epileptogenesis is a newly emerged term that defined as “an injury-initiated change that causes surviving neuron populations to generate abnormal, synchronous, and recurring epileptiform discharges that produce focal or generalized behavioral seizures” (Sloviter and Bumanglag

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