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Epilepsy and Epileptic Seizures

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<strong>Epileptic</strong> seizure<br />

• Symptom of brain functional impairment<br />

– acute<br />

– chronic<br />

• Usually short transient change in clinical<br />

status caused by pathological<br />

– increase in neuronal excitation<br />

– decrease in neuronal inhibition<br />

– neuronal hypersynchrony

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