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Given that sound and light can cause "abnormal brain activity" that can cause seizures - is it possible that there is also an erratic thought you can think that can cause seizures?
Given that sound and light can cause "abnormal brain activity" that can cause seizures - is it possible that there is also an erratic thought you can think that can cause seizures?
Fascinating but why not, light stimulation is well accepted. It seems odd to me that the article lists anti-seizure medication last among proposed management. That said, the absolute worst trigger I know of is stress relief. YES. You read that right. Some people have neurological conditions triggered by the relief of stress. Migrains and epilepsy, once you relax. What a hellish experience
Fascinating but why not, light stimulation is well accepted. It seems odd to me that the article lists anti-seizure medication last among proposed management. That said, the absolute worst trigger I know of is stress relief. YES. You read that right. Some people have neurological conditions triggered by the relief of stress. Migrains and epilepsy, once you relax. What a hellish experience
My neuro is still trying to figure out why I sometimes have seizures when trying to fall asleep or when I become deeply relaxed. There's definitely something to dopamine dysfunction and epilepsy, so this music-seizure connection is interesting. Usually dopamine is neuroprotective though, for example in the case of tramadol induced seizures https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/10915818177536...
Taking naps are impossible unless I pre-medicate myself, otherwise I'm going to have a seizure.
It turns out the process of sleep is really complex. Lots of chemical and electrical things are happening, and it just happens to trigger some of my (TBI) damaged brain cells. Someday maybe we'll be able to map which specific neurons are damaged by how they are triggered in various forms of epilepsy.
I was epileptic throughout puberty. After it was diagnosed and i understood what was happening, i started to recognize the feeling of absence/petite mal seizures before they happened. I used to refer to it as an "aura" because i had no better way to phrase it. Medication was a silver bullet for me and it all went away by my early 20s. I've not had a seizure since, but the closest i have come to experiencing that "aur…
The protagonist in Fabián Belinsky's last movie (RIP) refers to it that way, too: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0420509.
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My neuro is still trying to figure out why I sometimes have seizures when trying to fall asleep or when I become deeply relaxed. There's definitely something to dopamine dysfunction and epilepsy, so this music-seizure connection is interesting. Usually dopamine is neuroprotective though, for example in the case of tramadol induced seizures https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/10915818177536...
Brains are so weird. I too have sleep related epilepsy. My seizures are always right on the edge of falling asleep or waking. As in, I know the exact moment I start to fall asleep or wake because the seizure starts with a snap (literally). Without medication it's 100% of the time. These days they call my type of seizures 'focal aware', but it can generalize to a full blown tonic clonic. Taking naps are impossible unl…