Transcript Patient #3

Patient #3:
Raymond –
Epilepsy
By: Catrina Byrd
Patients Background
• Patient #3- A woman brings her 10-year-old son, Raymond, in
to see you. He’s been overly aggressive and angry lately, but
she has attributed this to her divorce from Raymond’s father.
Last night, Raymond attended a party at his friend’s house.
After a night of laser tag and little sleep, Raymond started
shaking and convulsing. He stopped before his mom arrived,
but she still wanted to get him checked out. Raymond does
not really remember falling to the floor, but he does
remember that he smelled a very unpleasant odor right
before he went down.
- Curriculum.
Symptoms:
• Aggression- Frontal Lobe
• Anger- Lymbic System
• Shaking- Lymbic System
• Convulsions- Lymbic System
• Memory Loss- Cerebellum
Diagnosis
• Almost all of the symptoms point to Epilepsy.
These being:
• Aggression
• Seizures
• Memory loss
What is Epilepsy?
• Seizures occur without warning.
• Range from staring into space to full out spasms.
• May be a strong or bad smell coming from the
patient.
Raymond and Epilepsy
• Damage of the frontal lobe can cause aggresion.
• Complications in the lymbic system can cause
anger and seizures .
• Corruption of the cerebellum can lead to
memory loss.
Prognosis
• Raymond has a chance to live a normal life and
will be put through a lot of different therapies to
help with seizures and aggressiveness. If
Raymond refuses therapy he could obtain a
shorter life span.
Sources
• https://www.epilepsy.com/epilepsy/epilepsy_brain
• http://symptoms.webmd.com/default.htm#/symptomsView