Try: Some care recipients cr suffer from or our prone to seizures a seizure is a sudden surge of electrical activity in the brain that usually affects how a cr feels or acts for a short time seizures are not a disease in themselves instead they are a symptom of many different disorders that can affect the brain some seizures can hardly be noticed while others are totally disabling about half of the people who have one seizure without a clear cause will have another one usually within 6 months a cr is twice as likely to have another seizure if she has a known brain injury or other type of brain abnormality if the first seizure occurred at the time of an injury or infection in the brain the cr is more likely to develop epilepsy than if she had not had a seizure in that situation more seizures are also likely if the doctor finds abnormalities on a neurological examination; a set of tests of the functioning of your nervous system that is performed in the doctor doctor’s office another thing that can help the doctor predict whether the cr will have more seizures is an eeg electroencephalogram a test in which wires attached to the scalp to record brain waves certain patterns on the eeg are typical of epilepsy if brain waves show patterns of that type the cr is about twice as likely to develop epilepsy as someone who does not have those patterns information references adapted from www epilepsy com

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