Show Notes
In this episode, our host and long-time intractable epilepsy sufferer, David Clifford, introduces the high-level classification of Seizures through a simplified metaphor. He then describes the tools that medical professionals to tell if a seizure fits a particular category. Finally, he suggests the best seizure information to track and then provide to medical professionals.
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What You Need to Know
There are many different types of seizures.
Using the same seizure nomenclature helps patients, doctors, and pharmacists.
The onset, is critical to the classification of seizures as it dictates how it originates in the brain.
There are two major different classifications of onsets. Focal seizures involve one side of the brain. Generalized seizures involve both sides of the brain.
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