Try: Epilepsy will have an impact on the care recipient’s cr brain epilepsy is a disorder of the central nervous system specifically the brain in simple terms the nervous system is a communications network for the cr that controls every thought emotion impression memory and movement nerves throughout the body enable the brain to communicate with every part of the body via electrical signals in epilepsy the brain brain’s electrical rhythms have a tendency to become imbalanced resulting in seizures in the cr the brain is an extraordinarily complex organ when it comes to understanding epilepsy there are several concepts about the brain you’ll need to learn as a caregiver the first is that the brain works on electricity a seizure occurs when the brain brain’s nerve cells misfire and generate a sudden uncontrolled surge of electrical activity in the brain another concept important to epilepsy is that different areas of the brain control different functions in the cr if seizures arise from a specific area of the brain then the initial symptoms of the seizure often reflect the functions of that area the right half of the brain controls the left side of the body and the left half of the brain controls the right side of the body so if a seizure starts from the right side of the brain in the area that controls movement in the thumb then the seizure may begin with jerking of the left thumb or hand information references epilepsy com
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