Epilepsy Talk
Ode to epilepsy…
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It strikes my head a hundred times…
It strikes my soul as many…
It strikes each thought I have…
Forecasts of epilepsy seizures could become a reality…
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Seizures are like a storm in the rain.
Not knowing when your next seizure will hit can be unnerving, at best.
Will a seizure happen five minutes from now, five weeks from now or five months from now?
It’s a crapshoot. Even with triggers and auras.
What you don’t know about your blood type could save your life!
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Do you know your blood type?
There’s a good chance that you don’t.
More Americans know their horoscope sign (66 percent) than their blood type (51 percent), according to a recent survey published by the medical laboratory company Quest Diagnostics.
Tags: Blood Type A, Blood Type A and B, Blood Type B, Blood Type O, health
Concussion diagnosis in 15 minutes?
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Can a video game detect a concussion?
Not exactly. But a computerized test, similar to a video game can do just that…
In 15 minutes!
What Do Billy Joel, Frankenstein, Itzhak Perlman and David Hockney Have In Common?
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They all have synesthesia…
The famous artist David Hockney, perceives music as color, shape, and configuration, and uses these perceptions when painting opera stage sets.
Russian painter Kandinsky combines color, hearing, touch, and smell.
In fact, people from all walks of the art world have synesthesia.
Tags: Billy Joel, David Hockney, different auras, Itzhak Perlman, Kandinsky, sight, sound, synesthesia
Do you consider yourself as “disabled” or a “person with disabilities”?
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Does your disability define you or are you defined by your disability?
New hope for drug resistant epilepsy…
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Drug-resistant epilepsy with uncontrolled severe seizures — despite state-of-the-art medical treatment — continues to be a major problem for up to 30% of patients with epilepsy.
Epilepsy Without Vaccinations — The Risks
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I started this article assured that vaccinations of children with epilepsy was a definite no-no.
And boy, was I surprised.
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