How to think yourself out of a seizure

摘要

SOME people with epilepsy can be trained to boost their mental alertness to avoid having a seizure. The technique may work by strengthening nerve pathways that can damp down overactive parts of the brain. Epileptic seizures happen when brain cells become too excitable and start firing out of control. This sometimes starts in just a small region - most often one of the temporal lobes, at the side of the head - and then spreads.