2. o Seizures happen when clusters of nerve cells in
the brain communicate with each other in a non
normally way.
o During a seizure the neurons normal pattern of
activity is disturbed causing them to fire about
500 times per second but its normal rate is about
80 times per second. This causes strange
sensations emotions and behavior when the
neurons normal pattern of activity is disturbed
and can cause a seizure.
o What can cause a seizure can be illness, and
brain damage.

3.  There are a few things that can cause seizures to
happen like lack of sleep, missing doses of
medication and lack of oxygen.
 Seizures can be caused from alcohol drug abuse or
from an infection. People can even have seizures if
they had a head injury or if a blood vessel popped in
their brain.
 The cause of a seizure can be in a normal brain. There
are a lot of nerve cells that send electrical impulses to
our brain. These impulses make contact with other
areas of the brain and do there job everyday. When
these impulses get disturbed, a seizure happens.

4. o Most people with epilepsy show to live normal
lives. Approximately 80 percent can be help by
modern therapies and some may go months or
years between seizures.
o People with severe seizures that stand
treatment have a shorter life and increased
there risk of making the seizure worse specially
if they had developed seizures when they were
little kids.
o These causes can be related to the conditions
that causes epilepsy or to epilepsy treatment
rather than the epilepsy itself.

5.  You can prevent epilepsy by wearing seatbelts
and bicycle helmets, putting children in car
seats, and other things that prevent head
injuries.
 Prescribing medication after first or second
seizures also may help to prevent epilepsy.
 Finally identifying the genes for many
nerve system disorders can provide
many chances to detect a bad birth
diagnose that may maybe prevent
many cases of epilepsy.

7. o Epilepsy can be treated with drugs. It is very
important to follow your doctors instructions
when taking epilepsy drugs.
o Vagus Nerve stimulation is a thing that can also
be another way to treat epilepsy. It’s job is to
send weak electrical signals to the Vagus
Nerve in your neck which sends the signals to
your brain at normal rate to decrease seizures.
o Surgery is another way to treat epilepsy. You
can only get surgery if the medicine didn’t
make and affect to you or if its your last
choice.

8.  Almost any type of behavior that happens
more than twice may represent a seizure.
 The only way you can see the symptoms of
epilepsy is when you have a seizure. There is no
warning it just happens out of no where. There
are different types of seizures that happen in
many parts of the brain.
 Seizures that make you fall to the ground or
make your muscles stiff or get out of control are
easy to recognize. Some seizures that make
you stare into space for a few seconds, or
make you twitch is another symptom of a
seizure.

9.  People have known about epilepsy for thousands of
years but have not understood it until now.
 The ancient Babylonians wrote about the symptoms and
causes of epilepsy 3000 years ago. They thought that
seizures were caused by demons attacking the person.
 Ancient Romans believed that epilepsy came from
demons and was contagious by touching or being
breathed on by a person with epilepsy. If this would
happen then people would spit on the floor to get rid of
the demons.
 In most cultures persons with epilepsy have been
stigmatized and imprisoned. In ancient Rome epilepsy was
known as a curse from the gods.
 Scientific discoveries about how the brain works allowed
us to make medicines that work better for us and helped
people with epilepsy to live normal lives.

10.  After a seizure happens to a person they
feel pain or they just don’t feel it at all or
they wake up all lost.
 People sometimes get ill after a seizure
has happen to them.
 Or sometimes the person wakes up all
twitchy after the seizure or their emotion
changes after the seizure.

11.  There are different kinds of epilepsy and
many of them are very rare.
 These are some examples of the different
types of epilepsy.
 There's, Absence Epilepsy, Temporal lobe
Epilepsy, Frontal lobe Epilepsy and etc..

12.  The risk of developing epilepsy increases
if you have family history of epilepsy.
 Head injuries for example a penetrating
wound or skull fracture.
 Problems with brain development that
happened before birth.
 Or epilepsy may develop even though
you do not have any risk factors.

13.  http://www.emedicinehealth.com/epilepsy/article_em.htm 11/25/11
 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epilepsy 11/25/11
 http://www.ninds.nih.gov/disorders/epilepsy/epilepsy.htm 11/25/11
 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MRZY2a2jnuw 11/25/11
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