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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. File:Lobes of the brain NL.svg - Wikipedia

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    This image is in the public domain because it is a mere mechanical scan or photocopy of a public domain original, or – from the available evidence – is so similar to such a scan or photocopy that no copyright protection can be expected to arise. The original itself is in the public domain for the following reason:

  6. Google and Harvard unveil most detailed ever map of human brain

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    300 million images. The brain sample came from a patient with severe epilepsy. ... the team behind the project aims to create a full map of the brain of a mouse, which would require between 500 ...

  7. Status epilepticus - Wikipedia

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    It is of two main types with either prolonged complex partial seizures or absence seizures. [11] Up to a quarter of cases of SE are nonconvulsive. [11] In the case of complex partial status epilepticus, the seizure is confined to a small area of the brain, normally the temporal lobe. Absence status epilepticus is marked by a generalized seizure ...

  8. Aura (symptom) - Wikipedia

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    Epileptic auras are subjective sensory or psychic phenomena due to a focal seizure, i.e. a seizure that originates from that area of the brain responsible for the function which then expresses itself with the symptoms of the aura. It is important because it makes it clear where the alteration causing the seizure is located.

  9. Scientists create first ever ‘map’ of an adult brain - AOL

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    Scientists have created a full map of an adult brain for the first time.. The 3D model of all of the neurons of a fruit fly, and the 50 million connections between them, is the first time that ...