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  2. Absence seizure - Wikipedia

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    Absence seizures are also known to occur to patients with porphyria and can be triggered by stress or other porphyrin-inducing factors. Childhood Absence Epilepsy. Childhood absence epilepsy (CAE) is a type of idiopathic epilepsy characterized by its non-convulsive, generalized nature and a genetic origin influenced by multiple factors [20]

  3. Spike-and-wave - Wikipedia

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    A drawing of the human brain showing the thalamus and cortex relative to other structures. The spike-and-wave pattern seen during an absence seizure is the result of a bilateral synchronous firing of neurons ranging from the neocortex (part of the cerebral cortex) to the thalamus, along the thalamocortical network. [2]

  4. Childhood absence epilepsy - Wikipedia

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    Childhood absence epilepsy (CAE), formerly known as pyknolepsy, is an idiopathic generalized epilepsy which occurs in otherwise normal children. The age of onset is between 4–10 years with peak age between 5–7 years. Children have absence seizures which although brief (~4–20 seconds), they occur frequently, sometimes in the hundreds per ...

  5. T-type calcium channel - Wikipedia

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    Further experiments on the GAERS showed that, indeed, the expression of T-type calcium channels play a key role in seizures caused by absence epilepsy in the GAERS. [5] Also, other evidence suggest that T-type calcium channel expression is not only up regulated in absence epilepsy, but also in other forms of epilepsy as well. [ 5 ]

  6. Epileptogenesis - Wikipedia

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    Epileptogenesis is the gradual process by which a typical brain develops epilepsy. [1] Epilepsy is a chronic condition in which seizures occur. [2] These changes to the brain occasionally cause neurons to fire in an abnormal, hypersynchronous manner, known as a seizure. [3]

  7. Seizure - Wikipedia

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    Focal seizures affect a specific area of the brain, not both sides. [13] It may turn into a generalized seizure if the seizure spreads through the brain. [3] [13] [8] Consciousness may or may not be impaired. [3] [5] The signs and symptoms of these seizures depends on the location of the brain that is affected. Focal seizures usually consist of ...

  8. Precuneus - Wikipedia

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    The precuneus is involved in memory tasks, such as when people look at images and try to respond based on what they have remembered in regard to verbal questions about their spatial details. [12] It is involved with the left prefrontal cortex in the recall of episodic memories [ 13 ] [ 14 ] including past episodes related to the self. [ 10 ]

  9. Epilepsy syndromes - Wikipedia

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    Syndromes are characterized into 4 groups based on epilepsy type: [1] a. Generalized onset epilepsy syndromes. These epilepsy syndromes have only generalized-onset seizures and include both the idiopathic generalized epilepsies (specifically childhood absence epilepsy, juvenile absence epilepsy, juvenile myoclonic epilepsy and epilepsy with generalized tonic- clonic seizures alone), as well as ...