Society, Behaviour and Epilepsy by Jaya Pinikahana

By Jaya Pinikahana

Even though medical, neurological, organic, psychiatric or even healing features of epilepsy were rather always reviewed, fairly little is understood concerning the psycho-social facets of this situation. The psycho-social outcomes of epilepsy are arguably frequently extra serious than the severity of epilepsy. stories express that social exclusion, worry, nervousness, tension, suicide, unemployment and homelessness between individuals with epilepsy are better than the overall inhabitants. even supposing there are not any attainable eclectic theories of bio-psychosocial facets of epilepsy, there are a number of present mental and sociological views of this ailment. This booklet fills a spot within the literature at the psycho-social context of epilepsy.

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Increased stress and anxiety). The benefit of this research is that the information can be used to inform health professionals of the subjective experiences of seizures, and to begin to put into practice strategies to reduce seizure risk, and increase preventative methods of seizure control. References Aird, R. B. (1983). The importance of seizure-inducing factors in the control of refractory forms of epilepsy. Epilepsia, 24, 567-582. Aird, R. , and Gordon, N. S. (1993). Some excitatory and inhibitory factors involved in the epileptic state.

In fact the NHS is a potentially extremely valuable resource for Australian epilepsy researchers as it provides a rare opportunity to analyse the generalisable characteristics of respondents that self-reported epilepsy. NHS provides generally valid and reliable national data on a large range of issues such as family and employment status, education and income levels and demographic and other variables. In a practical sense, we can retain Beren‘s caution but still use the data to gain a snapshot of factors associated with living with epilepsy and their interrelations.

Which seizure-precipitating factors do patients with epilepsy most frequently report? Epilepsy and Behavior, 6, 85-89. , et al. (1997). Hungarian multicentre epidemiologic study of the warning and initial symptoms (prodome, aura) of epileptic seizures. Seizure, 6, 361-368. , and Vargyai, E. (2008). Are there real unprovoked/unprecipitated seizures? Medical Hypotheses, 71, 851-857. , Steinhoff, B. , and Mayerc, T. (2006). Seizure anticipation by patients with focal and generalized epilepsy: A multicentre assessment of premonitory symptoms.

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