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He has a pre-existing health condition non-epileptic seizures and he is being denied left and right.
The Volokh Conspiracy » Obama Helping With Plans for Grassroots Health Care Parties. 2009
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Probably, I am told, these fits are PNES, or psychogenic non-epileptic seizures.
proofy jlundberg 2008
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At this time, the seizures are believed to be non-epileptic.
proofy jlundberg 2008
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ROBERTS: So do you expect that it would be an epileptic process or a non-epileptic process?
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This can be seen in their video of a genuine epileptic seizure (WMV file) when compared to a non-epileptic seizure (WMA file).
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They noticed that in genuine generalised epileptic seizures, the patients had their eyes open during the attack, whereas those with non-epileptic seizures had their eyes closed.
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Link to previous Mind Hacks post on non-epileptic seizures.
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New Scientist reports on a recent study that looks at the differences between epilepsy and psychogenic non-epileptic seizures - a mysterious condition that looks like a standard epileptic seizure e.g. falling to the floor, limb shaking and unconsciousness but does not seem to involve any disturbance in brain activity and instead is linked to underlying emotional issues and psychological distress.
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'Psychogenic non-epileptic seizures', where people seem to have epileptic seizures but without any detectable brain disturbance, have probably received the most research attention to date see two previous articles on Mind Hacks.
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This can be seen in their video of a genuine epileptic seizure (WMV file) when compared to a non-epileptic seizure (WMA file).
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