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An aura is really the very beginning of a seizure and occurs in a very tiny area of the brain. This spot is called the focus and can occur anywhere on the brain but will correspond with where the seizures come from, often an area that has been injured and has scar tissue. Depending on where that focus is will determine how the seizure will manifest itself. An olfactory aura would indicate that the seizure is starting in the area of the brain that controls the sensation and memory of smell. For safe, reliable information on epilepsy and seizures check out the website epilepsyfoundation.org
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How does the olfactory affect epilepsy?
Epileptic seizures originating in the olfactory part of the brain can create unusual or unexplained smells.
What is aura regarding seizures?
Many people with Epilepsy experience an aura before a seizure starts. An aura is normally a sensation that a seizure is potentially coming, or the first stage of a seizure. Sometimes nothing happens after the aura and a full seizure does not actually happen. The nature of an aura can vary from person to person.
What does having a seizure experience before their episode?
Often the first stage of having a seizure is an aura. An aura can take various forms, but it is usually a strange feeling and a warning to the person that a seizure is about to happen. However, sometimes the aura is all that happens and a seizure doesn't follow.
Which is worse chronic or severe epilepsy?
Chronic just means long lasting. You may have epileptic attacks over many years but they may be infrequent, short and manageable such as "aura". Severe epilepsy usually means "intractable" epilepsy where the attacks are frequent, usually involve spasms or convulsive movements, loss of conciousness and little or no response to treatment. Of course you can have chronic and severe epilepsy.
Describe the significance of large olfactory lobes to the lifestyle of the rat?
Rats must have a good sense of smell in order to locate food.
What meaing of aura?
It can mean an number of things, for example, an aroma. An atmosphere created by an association of words. A current of air caused by electrical discharge or a sensation that precedes an attach of epilepsy.
What cranial nerve is used when smelling a flower?
The Olfactory nerve. CN1 Cranial Nerve I, or the first cranial nerve called the Olfactory nerve.
Do humans have accessory olfactory system?
Yes. There are two distinct parts to the olfactory system--the main olfactory system and the accessory olfactory system
When did Aura-Aura Climber happen?
Aura-Aura Climber was created on 2010-02-22.
Olfactory nerve filaments are found?
in the olfactory bulb
What can cause complex partial seizures?
Complex partial seizures have no known cause other than coming from a form of epilepsy. These seizures are often preceded by a seizure aura, and usually resort in an altered state of conciousness.
What is in charge of your olfactory system?
The mechanism of the olfactory system can be divided into a peripheral one, sensing an external stimulus and encoding it as an electric signal in neurons, and a central one, where all signals are integrated and processed in the central nervous system. The peripheral olfactory system receptors are connected to bipolar olfactory receptor neurons in the olfactory epithelium. Fot the central olfactory system, axons from the olfactory sensory neurons converge in the olfactory bulb.
