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Question

Wed, 11/24/2004 - 11:44

My boy just phoned me and said "what to you think about when you have a seizure?", i told him i'll tell him when i see him in a few weeks. Now i have no idea, does any of you guys know?

Do we think in our seizures?


Comments

RE: Question

Submitted by mexican_fire on Wed, 2004-10-27 - 15:38

Hi my name is nancy.

No, we don't think when we seize, because we can't.

When we have a seizure, all consciousness is supressed to some point, and it literally turns off your brain, as a protective measure, and you can't think, or do things that make any sense.  You don't know you're doing what you are in a CP, even though you are moving around,  your brain is stuck there, and that is what happens.

Obviously in a TC, you are out cold, and your whole brain is shut down and turned off.

anything that is considered a generalized seizure makes it difficult to "think".

You can't think in an absence seizure, myoclonic seizure, tonic, clonic, tonic-clonic, and atonic.

You can think normally during a simple partial seizure, but not a complex partial or the TC that can occur from that.

Generalized seizures affect the whole brain-both sides of the brain-at once, where the partial seizures only affect a small area, which is why some people's motor area is still in tact, and we demonstrate something called automatisms during partial seizures.

IT would be interesting to research that idea, though, wouldn't it?

Nancy

Hi my name is nancy.

No, we don't think when we seize, because we can't.

When we have a seizure, all consciousness is supressed to some point, and it literally turns off your brain, as a protective measure, and you can't think, or do things that make any sense.  You don't know you're doing what you are in a CP, even though you are moving around,  your brain is stuck there, and that is what happens.

Obviously in a TC, you are out cold, and your whole brain is shut down and turned off.

anything that is considered a generalized seizure makes it difficult to "think".

You can't think in an absence seizure, myoclonic seizure, tonic, clonic, tonic-clonic, and atonic.

You can think normally during a simple partial seizure, but not a complex partial or the TC that can occur from that.

Generalized seizures affect the whole brain-both sides of the brain-at once, where the partial seizures only affect a small area, which is why some people's motor area is still in tact, and we demonstrate something called automatisms during partial seizures.

IT would be interesting to research that idea, though, wouldn't it?

Nancy

RE: RE: Question

Submitted by J2636s on Mon, 2004-11-22 - 20:07

Nancy:

You have an absolutely terrific answer here. After over 41 or 42 years of absence szs, almost 35 on AEDs, all uncontrolled.... that message made more sense than any I have ever heard from anyone!

Nancy:

You have an absolutely terrific answer here. After over 41 or 42 years of absence szs, almost 35 on AEDs, all uncontrolled.... that message made more sense than any I have ever heard from anyone!

RE: Question

Submitted by monalisa on Sat, 2004-10-30 - 12:52

Somebody just might have heard your  partner's question,according to this extract anyway.At least you can tell your partner that next time they ask what your brain was thinking about.


 
Breaking new ground in MRI researchThe NSE is once again at the forefront of the development and application of a complex imaging technique, looking at what goes on in the brain of a patient with epilepsy between and during seizures.

 
 http://www.epilepsynse.org.uk/pages/aboutus/medresea/mri.cfm

 

Somebody just might have heard your  partner's question,according to this extract anyway.At least you can tell your partner that next time they ask what your brain was thinking about.


 
Breaking new ground in MRI researchThe NSE is once again at the forefront of the development and application of a complex imaging technique, looking at what goes on in the brain of a patient with epilepsy between and during seizures.

 
 http://www.epilepsynse.org.uk/pages/aboutus/medresea/mri.cfm

 

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