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Assistant Professor of Neurology, University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus. This article is republished from The Conversation under a Creative Commons license.

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Silent, Subtle and Unseen: How Seizures Happen and Why They’re Hard to Diagnose Your Health

Silent, Subtle and Unseen: How Seizures Happen and Why They’re Hard to Diagnose

The dramatic and incapacitating nature of seizures is reflected in the word itself, which derives from the Greek “to take hold” – like an invisible force suddenly grasping someone and controlling their body. This sense of an unknown force has driven many superstitions and misrepresentations of seizures throughout history. Over the past century, the public’s […]

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