when their daughter Lia had an attack of epilepsy and was quickly taken to Merced’s County Hospital for treatment. Given the fact that Merced’s hospital did not have professional Hmong interpreters to translate medical procedures‚ physicians relied on janitors and nurse’s aide who spoke Hmong. As a result‚ Lia was misdiagnosed many times before a diagnosis of epilepsy was confirmed. In addition to the communication barriers‚ the Hmong’s belief that epilepsy was “evidence that they have the power
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one probably come up with Epilepsy. It is one of the most common and most known diseases of the nervous system. Epilepsy is a condition where there is an abnormality in the brain activity. The brain activity is normally very excessive and very sudden. “Approximately 2.3 million Americans and 40 million people throughout the world have epilepsy (Laberge‚ 2011).” Along with any other disease it has different types that go along with its severity. There is Generalized epilepsy where the abnormal activity
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Putnam (1938) developed the MES test and discovered the convulsive effect of diphenylhydantoin using this test[3]. Protection against electroshock induced seizures in mice and rats is used as an indication for compounds which may prove beneficial in epilepsy. The electrical stimulus evokes hind limb extension which can be suppressed by a given dose of anti epileptic medications. The resultant seizures passes through various phase: phase of tonic limb flexion of about 1.5 sec duration followed by phase
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Background: Epilepsy is also referred to as seizure disorder; it is a chronic brain disorder that briefly interrupts the normal electrical activity of the brain to cause seizures. These seizures can be characterized by a variety of symptoms including uncontrolled movements of the body‚ disorientation or confusion‚ sudden fear‚ or loss of consciousness. Epilepsy may be a result from a head injury‚ stroke‚ brain tumor‚ lead poisoning‚ or genetic conditions. An interesting fact about epilepsy is that in
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Epilepsy affects 48 out of every 100‚000 people in the U.S. making it the fourth most common brain disorder behind migraines‚ strokes and Alzheimer’s disease. Young children and older adults are more likely to be diagnosed with epilepsy than any other age group. Temporal lobe epilepsy is one of over 40 known types of epilepsy. Definition The brain is divided into two hemispheres‚ and each hemisphere has a frontal lobe‚ parietal lobe‚ occipital lobe and a temporal lobe. The temporal lobe is located
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Lia’s American doctors‚ on the other hand‚ treated Lia’s epilepsy as what most educated people would see; as purely as a neurological disorder. Her primary physicians‚ Neil Ernst and Peggy Philp‚ tried their hardest within the limit and fought till the end to make sure Lia gets the best medical care possible. However‚ due to a lack of communication between the family and the hospital‚ the problem wasn’t correctly diagnosed in the first visit. Lia’s medical regimen was very complicated especially
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Lafora progressive myoclonus epilepsy is a fatal form of autosomal recessive neurodegenerative disorder that is characterized by the presence of insoluble polyglucosan inclusion bodies‚ known as Lafora bodies. They are generally found in many of the body’s tissues such as within the cytoplasm of the cells of the heart‚ liver‚ muscle‚ and skin but the signs and symptoms of the disease are limited to the nervous system. The disease presents with epileptic seizures followed by progressive central nervous
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Children and adolescents with new-onset epilepsy Journal Article Epilepsy is one of the most common neurologic disorders in childhood‚ with a widespread rate of approximately 3-4 per 1‚000. In the paper they explore parent’s perceptions of their child’s quality of life and the impact of the diagnosis on their family. It’s talking about how the parent’s and children’s lives get accustomed to everyday normal functioning activities. Whenever there is any emotional well-being‚ self-esteem
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Epilepsy was something my Aunt Claire had. “Claire’s in a seizure!” was something I heard on a daily basis. So much so that I had lost the fear of seeing her writhing around the floor. It was commonplace‚ a part of our lives. However‚ that Wednesday morning‚ I didn’t realise that at four o’clock that day ‚ I would be the person with… that. Initially I had felt I had been robbed of my independence. Gone were the days where I could run out the door saying “I’m off out”. I remember getting ready for
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The Association of BRD2 with Juvenile Myoclonic Epilepsy Abstract Idiopathic generalized epilepsy (IGE) constitutes a variety of epileptic disorders in humans‚ the most common being juvenile myoclonic epilepsy (JME). There is strong evidence that JME can be caused by a faulty genetic variation in the human gene bromodomain-containing protein 2 (BRD2). For this reason‚ many studies on BRD2 homologues have been conducted to determine the function of this protein. Studies on human BRD2
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