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Triggers
- Harsh Percussive Sounds
- "Excessive" vibrato on higher frequencies
- Smell of citrus rind
- Machine noises (sometimes)
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Seizure Threshhold
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Sleep Deprivation
- "Long" days
- Malnutrition
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Stress
- Emotional
- Physiological
- Illness
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Treatment
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Medication
- Carbamazepine CR
- Lamotrigine
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Lifestyle
- Avoid triggers
- No driving
- No unsupervised swimming
- Avoid seizure-threshhold lowering medications
- Get enough sleep/food
- Reduce stress
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Geschwind Syndrome
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Intense emotions
- ?Bipolar disorder?
- Circumstantial thought
- Obsessionalism
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Preoccupation with religion, philosophy and morality
- Religiosity characterises periods of poor seizure control
- Atheism characterises periods of good seizure control, but intense religious interest is nonetheless maintained
- Sense of "special purpose" or "personal destiny"
- Excessive Guilt
- Hostility
- Paranoia
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Post-ictal
- Headache
- Exhaustion
- Confusion
- Sensitivity to light and sound
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Difficulty communicating verbally
- Communicating via writing is possible
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Ictal
- 20 seconds - 2 minutes
- Non-responsive
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Automatisms
- Jerking of right forearm
- Lip-smacking
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Aura
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Psychic Disturbances
- Sense of "impending doom"
- Jamais vu
- Feeling "weird"
- Derealization
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Sensory Disturbances
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Auditory
- Tempo distortions
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Visual
- Dolly zoom
- World "spins" very slowly
- Distortion of shape
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Physiological
- Temporary Paralysis
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Interictal
- Bipolar disorder
- Migraine
- Fibromyalgia
- ?Trigeminal Neuralgia?