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This tweetorial is based on:
Epilepsy Behav. 2005 Aug;7(1):1-17.
doi: 10.1016/j.yebeh.2005.04.004
This paper was written using the previous classification system and some data may need an update, nevertheless I find it useful when teaching about seizure semiology. 📓
Intro
The following symptoms are frequently seen in focal epilepsies.
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This tweetorial is based on:
Epilepsy Behav. 2005 Aug;7(1):1-17.
doi: 10.1016/j.yebeh.2005.04.004
This paper was written using the previous classification system and some data may need an update, nevertheless I find it useful when teaching about seizure semiology. 📓
Intro
The following symptoms are frequently seen in focal and focal to bilateral tonic-clonic seizures.
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This tweetorial is based on:
Epilepsy Behav. 2005 Aug;7(1):1-17.
doi: 10.1016/j.yebeh.2005.04.004
This paper was written using the previous classification system and some data may need an update, nevertheless I find it useful when teaching about seizure semiology. 📓
That is a great reason for a small tweetorial on how to approach phenomenology, the key element of this branch in Neurology. 🧠
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But first, what is phenomenology?
That is a term that refers to the description of the movement. Instead of trying inmmediately to put a label on what you see, first I suggest start by watching and describing. 🤔
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As the 2017 ILAE Classification of Seizure types states, there are many signs and symptoms that can have an epileptic origin. Some of them are motor and others are non motor.
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The non motor symptoms are more frequently seen in focal epilepsies.
"Concentrating on brain health provides a logical, unifying,motivating, and promising approach to preventing disease. After all, the brain is the agent of all our actions and the mediator of all our experiences.
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It is the only organ that cannot be transplanted and that can be changed literally by talking to it. It can perform 1 billion billion calculations per second and unlike artificial intelligence, can imagine, create, and anticipate.
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It is the most precious 3 pounds in the known
universe. If the brain were a computer with such capacities, and only available one per customer, we would take better care of it than we usually do with our own brains." - Vladimir Hachinski, MD, DSc.
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