Researchers find widespread disruption of brain activity during absence seizures
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Scientists believed that absence seizures — the brief loss of consciousness often mistaken for day-dreaming — was caused by a localized disruption of brain activity. A new Yale study finds the entire brain is involved in this common form of childhood epilepsy that causes kids to “blank out” for 10 seconds or more at a time.
Researchers find widespread disruption of brain activity during
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What is a Seizure?, Epilepsy FAQs
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Frontiers Abnormal static and dynamic functional network connectivity of the whole-brain in children with generalized tonic-clonic seizures
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Frontiers Temporally Targeted Interactions With Pathologic Oscillations as Therapeutical Targets in Epilepsy and Beyond
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Research locates absence epilepsy seizure 'choke point' in brain
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Absence Seizures Johns Hopkins Medicine
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