What happens during a seizure and what usually causes them?
In: Biology
I’m a doctor. For what it’s worth.
First the regular nerve system.
It’s made up of long cells in a row that stretch from your brain to the entire rest of your body. They transfer particles with rapid speed through their long bodies and these particles will excite other cells to do the same. Resulting in movement or thought or anything that discriminates your living body from a dead one.
These cells cannot do this 100% of the time because then you would contract every muscle 100% of the time and that would not be very useful. So when you decide to do something (consciously or uncousciously) you need enough particles to result in particles roaring through the nervecells. This heap of paricles you need, you could call a threshold. In epilepsy, these patients have a lower threshold since their cells are way more susceptible for stimulation and thus start sending particles even when your brain doesn’t want to. When that happens, you call it a seizure. You can conclude that this can happen any time! It happens even more often when an epileptic is triggered by sleepless nights, flashing lights, stress, basically anything that forces your brains out of their comfortzone.
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