Catamenial epilepsy is when seizures are influenced by hormones. Many women suffer from catamenial epilepsy, but few are diagnosed as their is no definite way to track it. Is this something that applies to you? More about me: https://linktr.ee/Drbillakotamd

Tracking your seizures is important for both you and your doctors to understand your epilepsy. For more info about me: https://linktr.ee/Drbillakotamd

Triggers for epilepsy can differ from person to person. Here, we discuss some common triggers as well as how to identify them. 

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Generalized tonic-clonic seizure is a type of seizure that involves the entire brain and body. They can either start from focal seizures (focal to bilateral tonic clonic) and just start from both sides of a brain at once. If they last longer than 5 mins or start to cluster, these can be dangerous for status epilepticus. 

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Focal epilepsy is the most common type of epilepsy. Seizures in focal epilepsy come from one particular area of brain or one "focus". The etiology is either something you're born with (congential: dysplasia, heterotopia, perinatal stroke etc.) or something that acquired (i.e stroke, trauma, infection, etc). 

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Generalized epilepsy causes seizures which occur from both halves of the brain at once. An EEG will show "generalized spike wave" discharges. These are usually seen earlier in life and can have a genetic component. 

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Population-based studies indicate that we all face a 3-5% lifetime risk of one seizure but only about 30% of those people will go onto have epilepsy.  A first seizure caused by an acute disturbance of brain function (acute symptomatic or provoked) is unlikely to recur. If a first seizure is unprovoked, however, meta-analyses suggest that 30% (even up to 50%) will recur; and after a second unprovoked seizure, 70-80% will recur, justifying the diagnosis of epilepsy.

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Epilepsy is a chronic neurological condition which affects up to 65 million worldwide. 1 in 26 people will receive this diagnosis. 

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You have 12 different cranial nerves that control your sensory and motor functions. They connect your brain to different parts of the body. Here are 7-12. Pardon the street noise! I live and work in midtown Manhattan!

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You have 12 different cranial nerves that control your sensory and motor functions. They connect your brain to different parts of the body. Here are the first 6.

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