The epileptiform seizures of the syndrome may be caused by the anemia of the brain resulting from failure of the heart to supply a sufficient quantity of blood.
The patient is now peculiarly liable to what are called congestive seizures orepileptiform attacks.
On the physical side the various symptoms of cerebral tumour such as coma, ataxia, paralysis, headache, vomiting, optic neuritis and epileptiform convulsions are met with.
If too large a dose of apiol be taken it will cause headache, giddiness, staggering, and deafness; and if going still further, it will induceepileptiform convulsions.
We were under the impression that such an attack is usually known as an epileptiform convulsion.
Schupfer[163] has recorded cases of family myoclonus with epileptiform attacks.
In addition, she suffers from epileptiform attacks, which commence by this deviation of head and eyes to the left, and spread to the arms and to the left leg, leading to loss of consciousness as they become generalised.
This secondary lesion, which showed self-sustaining epileptiform discharge, could be isolated, whereupon the epileptiformdischarge disappeared.
The patient remained all day in bed without epileptiform movements.
This phase may be regarded as one of epileptiformexcitement with delirium.
Hewat remarks that the case suggests that the serum of any patient developing epileptiform seizures for the first time say between 35 and 50 years of age, should be given the Wassermann test.
There are then nocturnal headache, sleeplessness, epileptiform attacks, the various phenomena produced by involvement of the cerebral nerves, etc.
Epileptiform convulsions and milder epileptic attacks can be traced to undigested matter in the intestine.
In one, however, he includes both the general physical disturbances, incomplete paralysis, and final coma characteristic of tumor and the epileptiform attacks so often due to peripheral or meningeal irritation.
Another explanation, which is perhaps more applicable to the epileptiform attacks, refers the convulsions to auto-infection by toxic substances produced in the stomach by abnormal fermentative and putrefactive changes (Bouchard).
There are cases of reported cures in the literature even after what seemed to be characteristic epileptiform attacks had occurred.
Epileptiform Seizures are convulsions due to causes other than epilepsy, and only a doctor can tell if an attack be epileptic or not and prescribe appropriate treatment.
Epilepsy and epileptiform convulsions occur in a few cases; it is very possible that the epilepsy may be a result of the uraemic poisoning induced by diseased kidneys.
I have also seen epileptiform convulsions, and delirium is almost always present.
The pupils were contracted, and there were epileptiform convulsions, succeeded by stertorous breathing.
These epileptiform seizures seem to have continued more or less for twelve days, and then ceased.
For six months he had been out of health, and a week before his death he suffered from colic, vomiting, constipation, and a blue line round the gums, and occasional epileptiform seizures.
The patient, a man sixty-five years old at the time of his death, had suffered for several years from the most violent and intractableepileptiform trigeminal neuralgia, complicated with interesting trophic changes of the tissues.
On the evening of this day (the patient having become extremely depressed and much emaciated) generalepileptiform convulsions set in, and followed each other rapidly; in a few hours coma supervened, and the patient sank the next day.
And there is one form of neuralgia, the true epileptiform tic, which is intimately bound up with a mental condition of the nature of melancholia, and even with the markedly suicidal form of the latter affection.
Mother suffered from epileptiform facial tic; uncle was paralyzed; patient herself eccentric to the verge of insanity.
The epileptiform attacks that occur in the midst of these intoxications are quite as likely to be accompanied by various forms of mental disturbance as are attacks of true {257} epilepsy.
Characteristic epileptiform convulsions occur as the result of lead poisoning or from alcohol or syphilis.
Others succumb to its influence very rapidly; some especially susceptible people are liable to suffer from epileptiformconvulsions almost whenever they take alcohol to excess.
I am not certain whether he claims to have cured any particular case of pseudo-epilepsy or epileptiform attacks, by psychoanalysis.
Kraepelin[10] mentions the epileptiform convulsions of uremia as well as delirious and comatose conditions, especially those in advanced pregnancy.
On the basis of these, and a number of other similar cases, I should like to suggest, from a descriptive point of view, that the epileptiform seizure is of the nature of an orgasm.
That the epileptiform attacks did not take place until after actual sexual orgasms had been experienced, lends weight to the conception I am presenting here.
The immediate purpose of my paper is to study some of the problems of therapy, from the psychoanalytic point of view, of that small class of patients on the borderline between hysteria and epilepsy, or patients with epileptiform attacks.
The epileptiform habit does not supervene until some considerable time after the operation; it is then transitory, lasting only for some weeks or months.
The epileptiformhabit is but rarely transmitted to progeny.
Upon the body of the poor servant girl, the distinguished vivisector had produced the "violent epileptiform convulsion" which Fritsch and Hitzig and Ferrier had induced in animals, by the same method of experimentation.
He also notices the slight epileptiform attack, although he adds that he is not "pretending to speak medically.
I suppose he's told you about the epileptiform disorders?
Now tell me about Sir Dioscorides Nayler and the epileptiform disorders.
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