By Ashley Smith & April

EPILEPSY

A woman brings her 10-year-old son, Raymond, in to see you. He’s been overly aggressive and angry lately, but she has attr ibuted this to her divorce from Raymond’s father. Last night, Raymond attended a party at his fr iend’s house. After a night of laser tag and l i ttle sleep, Raymond started shaking and convulsing. He stopped before his mom arrived, but she sti l l wanted to get him checked out. Raymond does not really remember fal l ing to the floor, but he does remember that he smelled a very unpleasant odor right before he went down.

PATIENT 3 – RAYMOND

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Overly aggressive and Angry feeling

Doesn’t remember falling

Very unpleasant odorShaking and

Convulsing Very little sleepWas playing laser

tag

RAYMOND’S SYMPTOMS

Focal/ Partial Seizures Simple Complex

GeneralizedPetit MalAtonicTonic-ClonicMyoclonicFebrile

DIFFERENT TYPES OF EPILEPSY

We can to the conclusion that Raymond experienced a complex Seizure caused by stress and the lights from laser tag.

DIAGNOSIS

Temporal Lobe Is responsible for the

smelling the unpleasant smell during the complex seizure.

Parietal Lobe The shaking and convulsing

during the seizure is controlled by the motor Cortex.

Frontal Lobe The Cerebral Cortex in the

Frontal Lobe is responsible for consciousness and Complex Seizures.

THE BRAIN

NORMAL VS EPILEPTIC

Epilepsy is one of the most common neurological disorders

Experts often still cannot not explain exactly how or why the disease develops.

It occurs because of abnormal electrical activity in the brain.

CAUSES OF EPILEPSY

Epilepsy may result from anything that disrupts the brains natural circuitry.

Examples Stroke Brain infection or disease Severe head injury Oxygen deprivation

*Nearly two-thirds of people never actually find out the cause.

CAUSES OF EPILEPSY (CONTINUED)

RemissionChildren who have

Cerebral Palsy and Mental Retardation have a lower probability of remission.

Also comes along with a higher mortality rate.

PROGNOSIS

Surgery Vagus Nerve

StimulationMedication

TREATMENT

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