Dictionary » S » Seizure

Seizure

seizure

(Science: clinical sign, neurology) A sudden attack or convulsion due to involuntary electrical activity in the brain. It is due to an uncontrolled burst of electrical activity in the brain that can result in a wide variety of clinical manifestations such as: muscle twitches, staring, tongue biting, urination, loss of consciousness and total body shaking.

Examples include: focal seizure, absence seizure, partial seizure, psychomotor seizure, petit-mal seizure and grand-mal seizures.


Please contribute to this project, if you have more information about this term feel free to edit this page



Results from our forum


Do AFA bacteria contain chlorophyll?

... see here and links inside for more about how those work. - They make claim that are quite dubious (removal of radioactive substance in the body, seizure reduction in case of epilepsy,..) and definitely not subtantiated. In conclusion, this will certainly be very efficient for the weight loss... ...

See entire post
by canalon
Sat Sep 05, 2009 4:24 pm
 
Forum: Microbiology
Topic: Do AFA bacteria contain chlorophyll?
Replies: 3
Views: 35

Re: Stomach bloating and weight gain

... get lengthy... Im 29 year old female, and my digestive problems started four years ago. I was diagnosed with epilepsy 6 years ago however had been seizure free for two years without medication. I got married four years ago and the change of lifestyle was a build up to a grand mal seizure. I have ...

See entire post
by Kins
Wed Aug 05, 2009 1:50 am
 
Forum: Physiology
Topic: Stomach bloating and weight gain
Replies: 299
Views: 485716

Solve medical mystery ~ yawn, stretch, tremors

... as though I needed heat and food NOW. I felt "freezing" but I was not cold. I remember the tremors being so painful. I can't say it's seizure activity because I can stop it if I resist the urge to stretch or yawn. But as soon as I let go, it's violent and painful. The it happenned ...

See entire post
by pookieboo
Fri Jan 23, 2009 11:58 pm
 
Forum: Human Biology
Topic: Solve medical mystery ~ yawn, stretch, tremors
Replies: 3
Views: 1426

Human Bio-technics (superhuman)

... force to the powerlifter's muscle or the little girl's muscle, then both are at risk of damaging themselves. Some kinds of trauma or a powerful seizure can cause someone's muscles to contract so forcefully that they actually suffer a broken bone - and all this force is generated by their own ...

See entire post
by biohazard
Thu Dec 11, 2008 6:09 pm
 
Forum: Human Biology
Topic: Human Bio-technics (superhuman)
Replies: 3
Views: 884

electric shock and memory

... people with depression nowadays. It came into fashion around the time of the lobotomy, if I have heard correctly. The point of EST is to elicit a seizure, I think somewhere along the reasons of 'people seem to be more sedated after a seizure'. There have been some really interesting experiments ...

See entire post
by squares
Wed Jun 18, 2008 3:06 am
 
Forum: Physiology
Topic: electric shock and memory
Replies: 6
Views: 2334
View all matching forum results

This page was last modified 21:16, 3 October 2005. This page has been accessed 1,350 times. 
What links here | Related changes | Permanent link