Exercise 7. Answer the following questions:
What is epilepsy characterized by?
What is the term idiopathic used for?
What types of seizures are there?
What may be observed in the tonic phase?
What does the EEG usually show?
How can seizures be provoked?
What are the symptoms in partial seizures?
How can epilepsy be controlled?
Exercise 8. Translate the following word combinations:
Повторювані епилептичі напади, мимовільні рухи, несвідомий стан, неусвідомленість того, що відбувається, cтруктурне пошкодження мозку, генералізована і часткова епілепсія, заснути, гарячковий спазм, зберігати рівновагу, світлова стимуляція, що переривається, помутніння свідомості, оcередкові пошкодження, скронева доля, протисудомні препарати, пароксизмальні порушення пам’яті.
Exercise 9. Put the questions to the underlined words:
Attacks are sometimes provoked by overbreathing.
The patient may rouse in a state of confusion.
In tonic-clonic seizures the patient falls to the ground unconscious.
Absence seizures often subside spontaneously in adult life.
A simple partial seizure consists of convulsive movements that might spread to the thumb.
After the seizure the patient may have no recollection of the event.
Seizures are controllable with medication in about 70% of cases.
In those whose seizures do not respond to medication, surgery, neurostimulation or dietary changes may be considered.
Exercise 10. Use the verbs in brackets in the appropriate tense form:
The patient stated that the onset of epilepsy (to be preceded) by the brain damage during an accident.
This woman (to suffer from) encephalitis before epilepsy developed.
If epilepsy (to be treated) properly, it may (to subside) gradually.
The doctor (to prescribe) him some anticonvulsive drugs.
This patient (to experience) seizures since his childhood.
The EEG (to take) during the attack (to show) bisynchronous spike and wave discharges.
In future about 5–10% of all people (to have) an unprovoked seizure by the age of 80.
People with epilepsy either have restrictions placed on their ability to drive or not ( to permit) to drive at all.
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