Crisis epilépticas se caracterizan básicamente por una alteración brusca en el comportamiento, que dura varios segundos o minutos, y se acompaña de alteraciones motoras (convulsiones), psíquicas (trastornos de la conciencia) o autónomas (relajación de esfínteres). La epilepsia se produce por una alteración en la conducción eléctrica del cerebro, provocada por una descarga brusca y anormal de una zona de la corteza cerebral y se manifiesta normalmente en forma de convulsiones o contracciones musculares.
<(A): Epilepsy: a chronic disorder characterized by paroxysmal brain dysfunction due to excessive neuronal discharge, and usually associated with some alteration of consciousness. The clinical manifestations of the attack may vary from complex abnormalities of behavior including generalized or focal convulsions to momentary spells of impaired consciousness. These clinical states have been subjected to a variety of classifications, none has been universally accepted to date and, accordingly, the terminologies used to describe the different types of attacks remain purely descriptive and nonstandardized; they are variously based on: the clinical manifestations of the seizure (motor, sensory, reflex, psychic or vegetative); the pathologic substrate (hereditary, inflammatory, degenerative, neoplastic, traumatic, or cryptogenic); the location of the epileptogenic lesion (rolandic, temporal, diencephalic regions); and the time of day at which the attacks occur (nocturnal, diurnal, menstrual).
<(F.): Épilepsie: est un trouble physique caractérisé par des changements soudains et brefs dans la façon de fonctionner du cerveau. C'est un symptôme d'un trouble neurologique - un dysfonctionnement qui touche le cerveau et se manifeste sous forme de crises.
<(In.): Epilepsy: a chronic disorder characterized by paroxysmal brain dysfunction due to excessive neuronal discharge, and usually associated with some alteration of consciousness. The clinical manifestations of the attack may vary from complex abnormalities of behavior including generalized or focal convulsions to momentary spells of impaired consciousness. These clinical states have been subjected to a variety of classifications, none has been universally accepted to date and, accordingly, the terminologies used to describe the different types of attacks remain purely descriptive and nonstandardized; they are variously based on: the clinical manifestations of the seizure (motor, sensory, reflex, psychic or vegetative); the pathologic substrate (hereditary, inflammatory, degenerative, neoplastic, traumatic, or cryptogenic); the location of the epileptogenic lesion (rolandic, temporal, diencephalic regions); and the time of day at which the attacks occur (nocturnal, diurnal, menstrual).
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