If a healthy brain functions like a well-conducted orchestra, with each instrument playing its part at the right time, a brain during an epileptic seizure functions more like a chaotic musical mishmash, where every instrument plays at once, without regard for any of the others around it. During an epileptic seizure, the brain, which normally operates in an orderly way by sending electrical messages from neuron to neuron, becomes overloaded.
When someone collapses to the floor, back arching, arms and legs thrashing, your first thought may be epileptic seizure.Īnd you wouldn’t be alone-until recently, most doctors thought the same thing.