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Epilepsy pathology
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tendency to suffer recurrent unprovoked seizures abnormal electrical discharge leading to tonic clonic, strange sensations or altered behaviour not one entity - but many causes but not including situations where seizure clearly has provoking cause eg alcohol withdrawal, febrile. 2 major subtypes ''idiopathic generalized'' - diffuse discharge at onset, tonic/clonic, absense, myoclonic jerks, usually hereditary, neuroimaging normal ''focal'' - start in one place but may spread to general, wide range Sx, structural lesion often associated, if no alteration consciousness - simple, if there is - complex
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