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Diagnosis
An epilepsy diagnosis is often made during an emergency visit for a seizure. If a person seeks medical help for a previous or suspected seizure, the doctor will ask about the patient's medical history, including seizure events.
Diagnostic Tools
Electroencephalogram (EEG). The most important diagnostic tool for epilepsy is an EEG, which records and measures brain waves. Ideally, it should be performed within 24 hours of a seizure. An EEG recording session may last for less than an hour,...
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Epilepsy and Migraine?
Full Question: epilepsy and migrainei have epilepsy, now controlled and bih which the pressure is ok at the minute. i have now been... Read more »
10/15/07 #2: Connection between Migraine and epilepsy, seizure...
Full Question:Is there a connection between migraines and epilepsy/seizure disorder? Or are migraines a form of epilepsy/seizure... Read more »
005/12/08 #2: Can a migraine cause a seizure in a person that does...
Full Question:Can a migraine cause a seizure in a person that does not have epilepsy If so how, what do you do about it? If it happens... Read more »
05/21/07 #9: EEG shows "Migraine variant/variance?"
Full Question: My EEG shows a "migraine variant/variance". Although I know many people with migraine, I don't know anyone who has this... Read more »
Act NOW for Better Migraine and Headache Treatments
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Hemiplegic Migraines
To understand Hemiplegic Migraine, we have to understand that Migraine attacks are episodic manifestations of a genetic neurological disease.... Read more »
Epilepsy meds may be linked to schizophrenia
Treatment in childhood with epilepsy medications may be linked to the development of schizophrenia later in life, some researchers say. Scientists... Read more »
Epilepsy (Seizure Disorders)
Source: HealthCentral Encyclopedia
Article updated and reviewed by Peter B. Kang, MD, Assistant in Neurology, Children's Hospital Boston, and Instructor in Neurology, Harvard Medical... Read more »
Epilepsy
Source: ADAM Encyclopedia
Temporal lobe epilepsy; Seizure disorder Treatment For treatment of seizures, please see Seizures - first aid. If an underlying cause... Read more »
Epilepsy: Treatment
Source: ADAM Encyclopedia
PrognosisPatients whose epilepsy is well controlled have a normal lifespan. Their long-term survival rates are lower than average if medications or... Read more »
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