Epilepsy defined
Information Television Network.
- [Place of publication not identified] : Information Television Network, 2006.
- 1 videodisc (approximately 30 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
- Healthy body, healthy mind episode 805 .
Originally broadcast as a segment of: Healthy body, healthy mind.
For thousands of years, seizures have been blamed on everything from evil spirits to mental illness. Now groundbreaking technology is revealing the true nature of epilepsy, a brain disorder that affects more than one percent of the population. Today doctors can often pinpoint the source of seizures within a patient's brain, using sophisticated imaging and brain wave tests. This helps determine the best treatment strategy, with options ranging from medication to a type of pacemaker for the brain. In some patients, brain surgery can even offer a cure.
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Epilepsy.
616.853 Epi 35
Originally broadcast as a segment of: Healthy body, healthy mind.
For thousands of years, seizures have been blamed on everything from evil spirits to mental illness. Now groundbreaking technology is revealing the true nature of epilepsy, a brain disorder that affects more than one percent of the population. Today doctors can often pinpoint the source of seizures within a patient's brain, using sophisticated imaging and brain wave tests. This helps determine the best treatment strategy, with options ranging from medication to a type of pacemaker for the brain. In some patients, brain surgery can even offer a cure.
883629229522
Epilepsy.
616.853 Epi 35