{"id":782,"date":"2018-07-03T19:49:49","date_gmt":"2018-07-03T19:49:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.efolio.soton.ac.uk\/blog\/discoverneuroscience\/?page_id=782"},"modified":"2019-03-14T13:23:08","modified_gmt":"2019-03-14T13:23:08","slug":"epilepsy","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/discoverneuroscience\/changing-minds\/epilepsy\/","title":{"rendered":"Epilepsy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Epilepsy is a condition that affects the brain and causes repeated seizures, also known as fits.\u00a0 Epilepsy affects over 600,000 people in the UK.\u00a0 Seizures are the most common symptom of epilepsy, although many people can have a seizure during their lifetime without developing epilepsy.\u00a0 Epilepsy usually begins during childhood, although it can start at any age. The cells in the brain, known as neurons, communicate with each other using electrical impulses. During a seizure, the normal electrical impulses are disrupted, and there is a sudden burst of electrical activity in the brain. This can cause the brain and body to behave strangely and each person with epilepsy will have a unique experience of the condition. You can find out more details\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.southampton.ac.uk\/biosci\/research\/epilepsy.page\"><strong>here<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Below you can see the work done by\u00a0Stephanie Simmons to illustrate\u00a0epilepsy through fashion. Further down, you can read their thoughts about epilepsy, their work as\u00a0an artist, and how the two interacted to create their piece.<\/p>\n<div class=\"h5p-content\" data-content-id=\"7\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"h5p-iframe-wrapper\"><iframe id=\"h5p-iframe-15\" class=\"h5p-iframe\" data-content-id=\"15\" style=\"height:1px\" src=\"about:blank\" frameBorder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\"> toolTips('.classtoolTips22','<span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif\">Facts and statistics collected together for reference or analysis.<\/span>'); <\/script>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Epilepsy is a condition that affects the brain and causes repeated seizures, also known as fits.\u00a0 Epilepsy affects over 600,000 people in the UK.\u00a0 Seizures are the most common symptom of epilepsy, although many people can have a seizure during their lifetime without developing epilepsy.\u00a0 Epilepsy usually begins during childhood, &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3738,"featured_media":0,"parent":773,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-782","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/discoverneuroscience\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/782","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/discoverneuroscience\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/discoverneuroscience\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/discoverneuroscience\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3738"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/discoverneuroscience\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=782"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/discoverneuroscience\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/782\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1086,"href":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/discoverneuroscience\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/782\/revisions\/1086"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/discoverneuroscience\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/773"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/discoverneuroscience\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=782"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}