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A seizure that lasts longer than five minutes is a medical emergency. Seizures can happen after a stroke or a head injury. An infection such as meningitis or ...
Seizure symptoms vary depending on the type of seizure. Because epilepsy is caused by certain activity in the brain, seizures can affect any brain process.
After a seizure, your healthcare professional reviews your symptoms and medical history and does a physical exam. You may have tests to find the cause of ...
Or seizures can be generalized, in which they result in electrical activity in all areas of the brain. Tonic-clonic seizures may begin as focal seizures in ...
These changes occur even when you're not having a seizure. Your healthcare professional may monitor you on video during an EEG to detect and record any seizures ...
To evaluate and treat seizures, Mayo Clinic's world-renowned neurologists, neurosurgeons, imaging specialists (radiologists), mental health specialists ( ...
Using deep brain stimulation techniques, neuroscientists at Mayo Clinic are looking for early signals in the brain to help stop seizures.
EEG tests are usually ordered when infants have movements that look like seizures or infantile spasms. If there is hypsarhythmia, then the doctors know to give ...
A febrile seizure is a convulsion in a child that's caused by a fever. The fever is often from an infection. Febrile seizures occur in young, ...
— The brain may inadvertently "learn" to have seizures by treating them like important memories to be stored, according to new research from Mayo Clinic. The ...
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