How to think yourself out of a seizure

• Autores: Clare Wilson
• Localización: New scientist, ISSN 0262-4079, Nº. 3164, 2018, pág. 9
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • Some people with epilepsy can be trained to boost their mental alertness to avoid having a seizure. The technique may work by strengthening nerve pathways that can damp down overactive parts of the brain. Epileptic seizures happen when brain cells become too excitable and start firing out of control. This sometimes starts in just a small region--most often one of the temporal lobes, at the side of the head--and then spreads. With epilepsy, one form of biofeedback training aims to let people ward off seizures by raising their level of mental alertness. This is linked to how much we sweat. Putting pads on the hands that are connected to a computer gives people feedback on their sweat gland activity.