Researchers find widespread disruption of brain activity during absence seizures
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Scientists believed that absence seizures — the brief loss of consciousness often mistaken for day-dreaming — was caused by a localized disruption of brain activity. A new Yale study finds the entire brain is involved in this common form of childhood epilepsy that causes kids to “blank out” for 10 seconds or more at a time.
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Biology, Free Full-Text
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Frontiers Quantitative EEG analysis in typical absence seizures
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Study Identifies Neuronal Basis of Impaired Consciousness in Absence Epilepsy < Yale School of Medicine
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Frontiers Temporally Targeted Interactions With Pathologic Oscillations as Therapeutical Targets in Epilepsy and Beyond
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Seizure enhances SUMOylation and zinc-finger transcriptional repression in neuronal nuclei - ScienceDirect
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Decreased but diverse activity of cortical and thalamic neurons in
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Cognitive and neurodevelopmental comorbidities in paediatric epilepsy
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Neurocognitive problems in epilepsy
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What is a Seizure?, Epilepsy FAQs
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Types of Seizures and their Symptoms: South Valley Neurology: Neurologists