epilepsy

(noun)

A medical condition in which the sufferer experiences seizures (or convulsions) and blackouts.

Related Terms

Examples of epilepsy in the following topics:

  • Psychosurgery

    • Corpus callosotomy is a palliative surgical procedure for the treatment of seizures, as seen in epilepsy.

  • Brain Imaging Techniques

    • Patients who suffer from epilepsy show an increase of the amplitude of firing visible on the EEG record.

  • Neural Correlates of Memory Consolidation

    • A famous case study that made this theory plausible is the story of a patient known as HM: After his hippocampus was removed in an effort to cure his epilepsy, he lost the ability to form memories.

  • Cerebral Hemispheres and Lobes of the Brain

    • The corpus callosum is sometimes implicated in the cause of seizures; patients with epilepsy sometimes undergo a corpus callostomy, or the removal of the corpus callosum.