Tegretol
04 July 2017
Also known as Teril or Carbamazepine. See Carbamazepine.
Read More >Sturge-Weber Syndrome
04 July 2017
is a congenital abnormality typically involving a facial birthmark (called a port wine stain or angioma) and a leptomeningeal angioma (or birthmark on the brain). Neurological symptoms can include seizures, developmental delay or intellectual disability, weakening of one side of the body and visual deficits. The brain involvement is mostly on one side but canRead More…
Read More >Status epilepticus
04 July 2017
A prolonged or continuous seizure lasting longer than 5 minutes or seizure clusters (seizures occurring repeatedly) without full recovery in-between. They can be convulsive or non-convulsive and can be life-threatening if they continue.
Read More >Spike and wave complex
04 July 2017
An EEG pattern which is characteristic in some forms of epilepsy.
Read More >SPECT
04 July 2017
Single Photon Emission Computerised Tomography. A diagnostic scan sometimes used to determine blood flow within the brain. SPECT can be performed on people with epilepsy who are working up for possible surgery for epilepsy.
Read More >Sodium Valproate
04 July 2017
Also known as Epilim or Valpro. Used in the management of focal and generalised onset seizures. Can also be used to treat mood disorders, particularly mania.
Read More >Seizure
04 July 2017
A seizure is a disruption in the normal pattern of electrical impulses in the brain. This can cause changes in sensation, awareness, and behaviour, or sometimes convulsions, muscle spasms or loss of consciousness, depending on where the seizure starts and spreads in the brain.
Read More >Secondarily generalised seizure
04 July 2017
see focal to bilateral tonic clonic seizure
Read More >Rolandic epilepsy
04 July 2017
Now called self-limited epilepsy with centrotemporal spikes (SeLECTS). This is a common focal epilepsy in childhood in which there may be infrequent seizures usually affecting one side of the face and may involve sensation changes, twitching, drooling and difficulty speaking. Often the child has awareness and these seizures tend to happen shortly after falling asleepRead More…
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