Thursday, February 18. 1971
Neurology Prof Says:
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Epileptics Often Social Outcasts
By ANN CONNETZ
Kansan Staff Writer
Frightening seizures which accompany epilepsy, though harmless to others, many times cause a normal person to become a socio-cognitive outcast, Dr. H. H. White, associate professor of at the KU Medical Center, said in an interview Tuesday.
Although epileptic seizures are frightening to the victim and to others, White said, they are usually harmless.
EPILEPSY RARELY kills but it frequently oestracizes, said white.
White said that the socio-economic needs of epilepsy for those who have been from society outweighed the significance of epilepsy as a social problem.
Until 1855, Kansas law required that persons who were an epileptic Epilepsies were also susceptible to sterilization provided for by law.
However, Dr. White said that the chances are about equal that an epileptic child will be born to a normal person as to an epileptic. In addition, epilepsy is not caused by heredity. It may be caused by an injury or disease which affects the nervous system.
Epilepsy is now understood to mean paroxysmal or recurrent symptoms of trouble in the nervous system.
THE SYMPTOMS usually impair consciousness sometimes and sometimes convulsive movement. These seizures are not symptoms, not a diagnosis of a condition.
Dr. White said, "Epilepsy is not a disease, as a headache is not a disease but something else that is wrong. For example, paralysis of the arm is not epilepsy."
The neurology department at the Medical Center treats patients suffering from seizures. Although at one time there was a special seizure clinic at the Medical Center, patients come here where seizures are now seen along with the patients, according to Dr. White.
TO AVOID the stigma and misunderstanding attached to the term epilepsy. Dr. White said he preferred to describe a patient's condition as a seizure or coma, words he considered disturbing.
Estimates indicate that the annual incidence rate for epilepsy in the United States persists at 10% The highest incidence occurs in children under 5 years, probably due to the state of a child's development.
In 1983, it was estimated that about one half of one per cent of the population or 75,000 persons in the United States hadeless.
However, Dr. White emphasized that since there were so many different types of epilepsy, or which were relatively mild, it might be difficult to epilepsy and not even know it.
"Epilepsy is not a disease. It's a symptom."
FOR EXAMPLE, a person might complain of what he calls "funny 'fairing spells'" or "worryful 'fairing spells'" that might have brief periods of staring, completely oblivious of his environment. In these cases, the staring is often caused by the starring is often accused of being the child is accused of being
inattentive by his teacher and his parents.
Children suffer from minor or petit mal seizures. Psychomotor seizures are those which do not fit well with their usual bodily function, usually slightly more severe than petit mal and involve more unorganized muscular movements.
THE MOST COMMON type of seizure, grand mal, follows a general pattern. First, the epileptic seizure is a weak, dizzy or shivering episode that gives a shrill cry and loses consciousness. Once he is unconscious his movements become uncontrolled and convulsive. After regaining consciousness his movement is usually confused and fatigued.
The least common type is the foetal seizure which includes only certain types of epilepsy, the usually occurs only in those patients with an organic lesion on the brain.
There are several different types of epileptic seizures. Ninety per cent of epileptics suffer from epilepsy after being generalized throughout the body.
Seizures may last from less than a minute to half an hour. Frequency ranges from several a day to one in several years. It is unusual to have more than two seizures in a 24-hour period.
Although some patients' seizures occur in a pattern, for others there is no pattern at all. We should keep these and return an at time.
Besides the variety of types of epilepsy, Dr. White said, "there are different types of epilepsy. They range from the patient who inherits the tendency to have seizures to patients who suffer as a symptom of a brain tumor.
SEIZURES MAY be caused by
normal mothers, he added.
Before 1937, when the only drug for controlling seizures was phenylenedithine, the outlook for epileptics was grim.
Progress Being Made On Apartment Violations
By DICK LARRIMORE
"The medicine can be administered by the patients themselves."
**EPILEPSY WAS** associated with mental illness and other scary connotations that have now been proven false, according to Dr. Berman.
Lawrence City Manager
Buford Watson said Wednesday
“the hereditary cause is hard to determine,” said Dr. White. “The clue is usually some little-known relative and the family name is hush-uh, so you may never know that old Aunt So and So had fights.”
The seminar will be held from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. in the Forum Room.
A speech by B. F. Skinner, founder of modern behaviorism, that was scheduled for 4 p.m. today in the Forum Room of the Kansas Union has been the same time in Hoch Auditorium.
Even if heredity was probable, if a mother of an epileptic mother giving birth to an epileptic child was not much more than the rate
Atty. Gen. Vern Miller will attend at 12:20 p.m. Saturday in the Kansas Room of the Kansas Union as part of a Criminal Code uniform that will be concerned with the new criminal code of Kansas.
Skinner will speak on
"Behaviom Comes of Age."
His speech is sponsored by the
psychology department.
Vern Miller Will Speak At Seminar
Speakers at the afternoon session will be Vick Hornborok of the Benning and paroles; Judge Richard A. member of the State Board of Paroles and Pardons and Attorney General Ed Collier.
Speakers at the morning conference at Martin, on police investigation; Raymond Spring; Dean of the College of Arts and Science at Gataburn University; on preparation before magistrates and Judge Michael Barbara, on pre-trial
The Soul Messengers will play from 8 to 11 p.m. tonight at a public dance in the main lobby of Elkworth Hall
Skinner is well known in behavioral behaviorism. His book, "Walden Two," his concept of a society based on social application of norm-based behaviorism.
Place Changed For Speech By Skinner
It will be the third event in a series of programs offered every Thursday night at Ellsworth Hall.
Now, in addition to
phenobarbital there are 25 or 30
incubates including Dilantin and
Zonoviren an effective
in control of seizures.
some event in the medical history of a patient such as a disease, a tumor, or a birth defect.
Dance to Be 3rd of Series At Ellsworth
Future programs will include panel discussions, documentary films and short stories. Tempests are being made by the events committee to secure the Black Ebb, Vers Miller and Peter Schaffer programs, Chalmers Jr. for the programs.
that some progress had been made in the city's effort to bring several apartment complexes in the city's "Uniform Building Code."
Violations of the code were discovered during a fire safety inspection conducted last October shortly after a fire Sept. 27 in demonstrations that killed Kathryn Kihm, then a Sanutech sophomore.
THE INSPECTON, conducted by City Building Inspector Ken Jorgensen, found violation in 16 of the plastering pieces. Most of the violations involved either stairways that they were closed or doors that were too thin.
Enclosed stairways are required to prevent the spread of smoke and fire from one floor of a building to another. Doors must be thick enough to retard fire for fireplaces specified by the building code.
Many of the complexes considered three-story structures in the original inspection were reclassified as two-story buildings with basements. They feature high security feature to comply with the building code's regulations for two-story structures.
of the 16 complexes originally found in violation, eight were (eight of which) built as a building inspector after the city obtained a legal definition of the term "building" in the definition, when at least half the perimeter of a building was covered to a six foot depth by the building, it was considered a basement.
Watson did not rule out legal action against the two owners who had threatened to correct their violations, but said that he though agreement would be reached.
"Those three drugs are the major advances in the medical therapy of epilepsy such that now we have a large number of causes, somewhere between 80-85 per cent can be controlled to make the variable and result," said Dr. White.
has commitments from six of the eight complexes remaining in violation of the code.
The names of the apartment complexes that had violations have not been made public, and Watson said that there was no reason for their names, especially in view of the progress that had been made.
BOTH JORGENSEN and Watson said that they had received good cooperation from good teachers with one exception. The city now
Jorgensen said that he would like to inspect many of the older buildings that had been converted into apartments but that he had neither the manpower nor the time to make such a visit. Besides Jorgensen, the building inspection department employs two-time and one part-time employees.
WATSON SAID the city planned no mass enforcement of building codes on older curricula in apartments to换公寓 houses. He said the city did not want to see several thousand people displaced if many of the older schools were closed down because of violations.
Watson said the federal government's Department of Housing and Urban Development said that cities enforce minimum structure codes. He said he and several other city officials had considered requesting assistance that no decision had been made.
He also said that it would be difficult to conduct a city-walking event if I did not want to be accused of singling out certain individual landlords
The drugs are taken orally and can often control seizures so completely that an epileptic can have a normal, active life, he said.
"THE MEDICINE can be and always themselves; it is entirely safe and virtually free of hazards; it is 'inexpenisble'. Dr. White said
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organizations which are working to dispel the stigma needlessly attached to epilepsy.
State laws have been passed to encourage employment of opioids and other drugs that have driver's licenses as long as seizures are under control and in compliance.
Dr. White said that there has never been any direct relation proved between mental retardation and epilepsy. Most ill-defined, including death, mental retardation, death usually result from cause of the epilepsy such as an infection or a tumor on the brain.
SINCE EPILEPTIS now have an opportunity to enter the medical field. We encourage epileptics who seek help at the Medical Center to lead
"If a young couple comes to us for genetic counseling, and we want to plan ahead and plan a family as the one partner had had no seizures," the one partner had said.
Although some persons experience only partial or no response to the drugs, Dr. White advises that they shouldn't lead a perfectly legitimate expectation of family if that's what they want."
LOS ANGELES (UPI)—The earthquake which wracked the Los Angeles area was a shattering experience to many children, mental health, and as Wednesday, and left some boys, and girls so disturbed that they and girls go into their bedrooms alone.
parents to talk about their anxiety.
L.A. Quake Disturbs Children
"Many parents were very, very surprised at the fear expressed by the child, who came in because the child was following them around the house or wouldn't go to play. There is an opportunity to talk out their fears."
another quake," said Margaret Naiditch, spokesman for the clinic.
More than 500 such children, aged 4 to 14, have undergone group therapy sessions with their worried parents at the San Diego Clinic and once again at the San Francisco Clinic since the quake rocked the earth at dawn nine days ago.
"It came out in all the sessions. The fear has been reinforced by the fact that we need to go into their bedrooms. They afraid their homes are not safe."
"One of the things that came out in the interviews was the general fear that there would be
The most severe damage from the quake occurred in the northwest of Tokyo, where death toll stood at 64, 45 of which crushed when a veteran hospital opened.
Mrs. Naditch said at the climic that the main problem with the children was that they were not given an opportunity by their
Cambodian Leader Rests, Recovers From Stroke
Lon Nol's son, Lon Rith-Dara,
and brother, Lon Keng, flew here
from Paris early this week.
Penh last weekend and visits him daily from her quarters on the grounds of the huge military base on a hillside above Pearl Harbor.
HONOLULU (UPI)—Cambodian Prime Minister Lon Nol has been making steady progress in combating the spread of eating and sleeping well, and visiting with aides and members of the hospital. Hospital reported Wednesday.
Army doctors said the 88-year-old ruler was getting along so well they decided to discontinue all bullets on his condition.
The prime minister is aone to walk about his special VIP room with the help of a leg brace fitted by his American doctors. The doctor and he 8 partially paralyzed Lon Nol on his left side. Doctors said his surgery was only minimally affected and there was no brain damage.
Lon Nol is expected to be at the hospital for at least several weeks. His wife has been here since he arrived from Phnom
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