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Seizures

"Seizures" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus, MeSH (Medical Subject Headings). Descriptors are arranged in a hierarchical structure, which enables searching at various levels of specificity.

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Clinical or subclinical disturbances of cortical function due to a sudden, abnormal, excessive, and disorganized discharge of brain cells. Clinical manifestations include abnormal motor, sensory and psychic phenomena. Recurrent seizures are usually referred to as EPILEPSY or "seizure disorder."


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This graph shows the total number of publications written about "Seizures" by people in this website by year, and whether "Seizures" was a major or minor topic of these publications.
Bar chart showing 178 publications over 28 distinct years, with a maximum of 18 publications in 2023
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