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TEE PATHOGENESIS OF EPILEPTIC SEIZIJRE
Author(s) -
Kurosawa Ryoeuke,
Hattori Hisashi,
Wakoh Toshihisa
Publication year - 1956
Publication title -
psychiatry and clinical neurosciences
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.609
H-Index - 74
eISSN - 1440-1819
pISSN - 1323-1316
DOI - 10.1111/j.1440-1819.1956.tb02730.x
Subject(s) - hyperventilation , abnormality , anesthesia , electroencephalography , potassium , potassium deficiency , epilepsy , medicine , epileptic seizure , psychology , chemistry , neuroscience , psychiatry , organic chemistry
Summary Registering EEG in epileptics, we measured in parallel the electrolytes in the serum before and after hyperventilation. When the EEG did not show any abnormality during hyperventilation or showed the same abnormality before and during hyperventilation, Na went increased and K went decreased. On the contrary, when the violent discharge was observed at the first times of hyperventilation, Na went decreased and K went increased. The same change was also observable in case of a spontaneus seizure. From these data it may well be assumable that the violent discharge would regularly be accompanied by the outflux of K; namely, a seizure would be the outflux of overladen potassium from the tissue.