Siri Hustvedt

I have not been diagnosed with epilepsy. I did have an MRI of the brain, and they found no abnormalities in my brain. Now, there are people with epilepsy who have completely normal MRI's, too. I just think also, you know, epileptic seizures can be triggered by emotional stress, by all kinds of things, lights.

American Novelist

Rick Nielsen

No one knows this, but when I would play the clubs back in '65, '66, they used to call me 'Screaming Chicken,' 'cause I would go out and scream, fall on the ground, beat myself, smash stuff, jump through the ceiling, roll on the floor, and act like I was having epileptic fits.

American Musician

Lionel Blue

Because of my Marxism, I was not into myths or miracles, whether it was the virgin birth, the physical resurrection or casting out demons from an epileptic.

British Clergyman

Use 'epileptic' in medical or clinical discussions to refer to seizures related to epilepsy.

Context Awareness

'Epileptic' can sometimes be seen as a label, so it's more respectful to say 'person with epilepsy'.

Sensitivity Needed

'Epileptic' describes things related to epilepsy, not just the person. Be clear in context.

Adjective Nuance

Refer to someone as 'having epilepsy' instead of 'being epileptic' for respectfulness.

Person Not Condition

Be aware of cultural differences in perception and sensitivity when discussing epilepsy.

Cultural Sensitivity

Know that epileptics might need immediate help during seizures, which can inform urgency in context.

Emergency Preparedness

 And they do the opposite of the molecule I told you about before, with the blue light activator, channelrhodopsin. Let's give an example of where we think this is going to go. Consider, for example, a condition like epilepsy, where the brain is overactive. Now, if drugs fail in epileptic treatment, one of the strategies is to remove part of the brain,

Ed Boyden: A light...

 to the epileptic focus, the origin of the epilepsy, where we can sense the electrical signal and have computer analysis that tells us when to hit it with some electrical current to prevent the clinical manifestation of the seizure. In the blue wire, we see what's called a deep brain electrode.

Robert Fischell: TED...

 We know a lot about nerve cells in post-mortem, in dead brains and of course in animals. But there's a rare occasion when you can actually listen in to the way neurons talk to each other, and that's during neurosurgery. So in some subset of patients, that have epileptic seizures,

National Geographic...

 example a condition like epilepsy where the brain is overactive now if drugs fail an epileptic treatment one of the strategies is to remove part of the brain that's obviously irreversible and there could be side effects what if we could just turn off that brain for the

A light switch for...

 I think it's safe to say that with our advances in technology, more and more of what's happening in the human brain can and will be decoded over time. Already, using one of these devices, an epileptic can know they're going to have an epileptic seizure

When technology can read...

 toward the instability, giving birth to the baby, the dragon-king. So if you measure the precursor signal, you can actually identify pre- and post-maturity problems in advance. Epileptic seizures also come in a large variety of size,

Didier Sornette: How we...

 began to notice among their patients, who were also epileptics, that if they had a series of epileptic fits, a lot of them in a row -- the depression would very frequently lift. Not only would it lift, but it might never return.

Sherwin Nuland: How...

 blessed we feel to have brought this plant into our lives and into our daughter's life I wish every epileptic child and family that wants to choose to try it would have that option

"Meeting her for the...

 are now transforming lives all over the country they're being trained to detect the early warning signals for severe allergic reactions epileptic fits and narcolepsy