Category: Convulsions

Drugs for the Suppression of Pain (Analgesics)

Filed under: Convulsions - 28 May 2008

Pain is a designation for a spectrum sensations of highly divergent charact and intensity ranging from unpleasa to intolerable. Pain stimuli are detecte by physiological receptors (sensor nociceptors) least differentiated mo phologically, viz., free nerve ending. The body of the …

What are Hysterical Convulsions?

Filed under: Convulsions - 19 May 2008

These convulsions are of a psychogenic origin, also called psychogenic seizures or psychogenic non-epileptic seizures. These should be differentiated from true epileptic convulsions; hence the value of an eyewitness for the precise diagnosis of epilepsy. Simple information, that the patient …