Seizures | Etiology, Pathophysiology, Clinical Features, Treatment, Complications/Status Epilepticus 

I thought this video is too long but after finishing it I realised that it's worth every second, thanks man

The king of medical RU-vid teacher. ❤️❤️

1.4 hrs........standing for us...hats off to you sir

I thank God for smart teachers like this man who teaches people that wants to learn. The best teachers can be found on RU-vid...for free. Nowadays, ignorance is a choice.

You are an enigma my friend. Your blend of knowledge and charisma is so amazing to watch. I truly hope you know how much you are valued. Much love from Australia

My 27-yr old son has Lennox-Gastaut Syndrome. It’s a horrific Epilepsy Syndrome that we’ve fought hard to control. I stumbled upon your video while searching for a video explaining seizures for a young lady who has been working with my son. She’s been inspired by him and is interested in a nursing program to become a NP. Now she has a resource for her studies. Great job! Doctors should watch this.

Man! Where does Zach gets his energy and excitement to give such a complex lecture? Thanks Zach and his excellent support team!

You have the best personality! I LOVE your spark and the life in your eyes! I see that you love your line of work and it shows. You make your lectures so addictive by the way you teach them!! Many thanks x

As a person that had a left temporal lobe tumor (astrocytoma), along with seizures, I can tell you that I've experienced the Aura, deja vu, nausea, along with the focal motor (tonic) sensations. Now I know in much more detail what's happening in my brain. Great explanation. PS: Keppra (Leveteracetam) is what I was prescribed.

I have epilepsy and I always dread having my neuro lectures. You have truly done an amazing job at the content. Thank you so much. This is my go-to channel before every exam.

I was diagnosed with epilepsy in 2005. Thank you for sharing everything

The Best lecture on seizure I have ever attend in career life yet.❤️

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I cannot explain how easier is watching your lectures in comparison to my daily studies

I was just diagnosed with mesial temporal lobe epilepsy about a month ago and it's really interesting to learn exactly what's happening in my brain!

I am medical student and really I enjoy your lectures

Thank you. Your videos are renewing my enthusiasm in learning and motivation to go back to college. I would encourage those with ADHD to watch; it’s a game changer!

IDK what I'd do without your lectures, hey. So much detail, so easy to digest.

This dude teaches so well. You are amazing ninja nerd!! I found this channel yesterday and I’m so happy I found it… been watching for hours since yesterday 😂

God is faithful to have people like you,your teaching approach is super good," learning made easier is the other name for your channel 🤣🤣

Funny, I literally searched for seizures lectures by ninja nerd yesterday , then this popped up in my notifications 😍😍

Saving my future medical career one video at a time😂 Thank you, Zach

Thank you for your great contribution in selflessly exerting for the education for thousands of students !!! You are so much respectworthy !!! I will one day too .. become a doctor and treat people to best of my ability and also educate people like you !! Thank you for inspiring me so much !!! Thank you so much❤️🙏

You guys literally change lives...medicine just makes sense with Ninja Nerd.. Honestly wish u could teach my university to lecture us with such an amazing detail yet simplicity to e peak

Thus dude is King YT Dr.!!! Amazing clarity and simplicity while maintaining clinical accuracy. If I needed a Nerologist, he would be the Guy I look for. His straight forward approach is reassuring. Plus he's sleeved. 👍

I have epilepsy and this was so informative! My doctors/the hospital gave me almost no information after I was diagnosed. Thank you for this!

When the screen blacked out , I had a mini panic attack 😂 thank you so much ninja nerd 🔥

You areare the best teacher ever and ever. I'm in pediatric rotation since you dont have pediatric videos i'm really struggling to understand and i always say : if only Zach was my teacher

thank you so much !!! you are building the next generation of scientists and health care workers !!! love from a nursing student

Your effort is really appreciated. Thank you for the time, and effort, and for explaining the topic in a smooth way.

you are a blessing to us dude..

Great video as always. Thank you ninja nerd

A man just had a seizure at work then 2 more at the hospital yesterday which brought me to this video. I'm subscribed! Thank you, for giving me an insight on what is going on with this.

Watching this whole thing I felt like you were diagnosing me I have never ever seen seizures broken down I like you break them down even though I have seizures I’ve never understood them so thank you

you are a real NINJA sir , an explaination that i could not find anywhere else thank you man and the whole team of NINJA NERD

This guy is the best I’ve had epilepsy since I was born going on three years of seizure free

There is literally no better video for seizures on RU-vid besides this 🎉

Watched in one sitting! Thanks so much ! 😊

Best teacher! I see your videos from Peru and these are very helpful for my usmle step 1 preparation. I really notice how much you enjoy sharing and teaching your lectures!

I am an EEG technologist who works in the ICU and this was immensely helpful to further my understanding. Thank you GOAT!

Thank you so much. You were a big part of my passing A+P with a B+. Your lectures are so informative and interesting.

Thank you for making this video, I have had epilepsy for 18 years and have no idea why I have grand mal seizures. It sucks! This video has taught me more than any doctor has ever tried to tell me, or been able to. Still going to see the doctor don't worry, lol.

Someone please give him Oscar for best teacher 🥰🥰🥰.... He is such an amazing tarcher..... I'm became proud of ninja nerds😭

Your channel has truly helped me believe that it's worthwhile to apply to medical school as an atypical applicant late in life. Thanks ❣️

Your lectures are priceless. Your video just helped me figure out what's wrong with my patient

thank God for getting such a best teacher..thanks for such an awesome lecture.

You're such an amazing person/teacher I'm literally out of words

These videos are just too good to be true, but obviously they are. You are seriously skilled with presentation. Absolutely superb videos!

I’ve been getting in the process of an epilepsy diagnoses, the paramedics know me by name and told my fiancé when I passed out the other night was that I have seizures that make me faint, high heart heart, low blood pressure, insomnia and always twitch and get pins and needles trying to fall asleep and am on a high dose of levitrazapam and b1, and this video really helped me understand what is going on 🖤

love your videos, please keep making them. so easy to remember!!!

Nobody could have explained better. You are great man

I thanks MY Lord for those kinds of intelligent teachers that he gives the power who took the time to learn about SEIZURES and teach people with SEIZURES.

Absolutely amazing in a video, so much information so well put

Your videos are very helpful as they contain all information needed. Thank you

God bless you Prof Murphy, Youre great!

I am enjoying all your topics. I am am EEG tech. I am studying for my EEG Registration. You are a wonderful teacher. thanks

The time i started watching your tutorials Biomedical science has been easier for me Salute man, thanks man for your simplest explanation wooo

This guy is genius! Very clear explanation!

Wow…you are just incredible!!! Learning and connecting so many dots….so thankful for you!!!!

Excellent presentation on seizures! Much appreciated!👍👍👍

I must say that you are the greatest teacher I've ever had. You inspired me and make me dream about the moment when I'll be a doctor and teaching my students. Even if I have studied the farmacology of nervous system, it is cool to revise the basics. You're my favourite

Absolutely amazing ... a five stars lecture !!!

Can we please get more of drugs and also paediatrics or emergency medicine 🥺 i love your videos🤩

A lot more information that I'm enjoying listening to as I suffer with epilepsy myself tonic clonic seziures.

As an emt this helps me a lot. Thank you!!!

THANK YOU SO MUCH, NINJA NERDS! LOVE YOU GUYSSS! 😭💜

I saw many patients in ED have aura before seizure. it is such an interesting topic to study, particular the treatment part. very well explained!

You made this topic so approachable! In a lot of books its just so unneccessarily convoluted thank u so much for making this lecture in such an easy to understand and remember format!

Great job.....one part that was not mentioned is Catamenial epilepsy which is seizures related to hormones.. Thanks a million for that wonderful effort.. Very very appreciated

first time understanding seizures , thank you so much

Thank you so much your speech is so clear and you explain it so well I feel better since I watched your video I’ve been so worried and lost my family member just started getting seizures / Epilepsy not even the doc explained it like you so thank so much

THE BEST EVER EXPLANATION!! 👍

Absolutely appreciate you and your team for making our study sessions a lot easier and fun .

Brilliant, thank you so so so much for your effort. Highly appreciated.

Thank you so much for your work! It's great!

Love your vids. I'm an Rn and worked in neuro step-down and rehab, general rehab, medsurg, and also psych. Some of what you said here reminded of some of my psychiatric patients not presenting with seizures, but with mental abnormalities caused by some of the metabolic causes you mentioned. But that's not the point of my comment. 2001 (age 21) I started having seizures. More specifically complex partial seizures. Never had any trigger, aura or warning. They just happened. I was treated with several medicines for 6 years with no benefit. In 6 years of treatment I also had a few big bad seizures. It turns out I had a BRAIN TUMOR in my left temporal lobe. How it was missed on MRI for YEARS still baffles me. Fortunately several different tests determined it was safe to remove. The tumor happened to be a PLEOMORPHIC XANTHOASTROCYTOMA. It may be rare, but seizures are usually the only symptom. In hindsight, I know it was affecting me psychologically years before the seizures started. You can add this tumor to the list of neoplastic causes of seizures. Unfortunately, because of the tumor and surgery location, my mental and emotional health was unstable. To be brief, I was forced to leave nursing. But the good part of this story is I'm healthy now with no deficit. No seizures since 2007 and no neuro follow ups since 2016. I'm still trying to figure out who I am sinces the tumor removal but thats beside the point. My point is you can add a PXA to your list of tumors. Thanks for your vids. They are awesome.

PROFESSOR YOU ARE AWESOME !!! Thank you.!!

thank you ninja your video was very helpful in understanding my seizures and causes thank you so much i appreciate you.

Thank you very much, you are just the best you, literally change medical students life.

Thank you for wonderful explanation ....best teacher for me on youtube

You're amazing! Thank you so much for this, I'm in 4th year medicine and my University's lectures have got nothing on Ninja nerd videos!

Wonderful video, thank you for sharing your expertise.

All you videos are so great with really easy to understand the conditions. X

You're always amazing. We are always happy n excited by your effort.

Hi guys! Thanks for this. I’m on a crash course to learn as much as I possibly can about seizures because I was just diagnosed with a seizure condition. My neurologist can’t be much more specific yet-looks like more time and observation is needed before he can narrow it down. I think you might consider adding psychedelic drugs to your list of drugs that lower the seizure threshold. I know because it happened to me-a combination of LSD and lithium back in 1992 gave me a huge bout of clonic/tonic seizures (full on status epilepticus) for at least an hour, followed by a coma for about 6-7 hours. I also fell on my face so hard that I broke my nose. Since then, I’ve had a handful of seizures under circumstances where I would have never had them before-dehydration, flashing lights, etc. Then, about 6 years ago I started having severe migraines, tinnitus, and weird visual phenomena that usually behave like migraine auras but sometimes don’t. My neurologist says my brain looks like I played football in college: I have small bits of collected scar tissue from TIAs over the years, related to what looks like pretty constant seizure activity. I’m still learning the terminology, but I think I have both absence and different types of focal seizures. I did have a lot of concussions as a kid because I was a crazy tomboy and I also snowboarded and hit my head a few times doing that, so that could be related, but I doubt I would be having the problems I have now had I not messed around with that particular combo of drugs. (Too bad, for me anyway, because I actually did get a lot of therapeutic benefit from psychedelics, and I think there’s a lot of real potential in the research being done in psychology and, hopefully, psychopharmacology, for depression and anxiety and other issues that are difficult to treat). We’ve landed on Topomax for now to hopefully deal with the migraines and cut down on the seizure activity. I was already taking Esgic and Diazepam, for the migraines and anxiety respectively, so maybe the cocktail will work without our having to move on to some of the anti-epileptic meds that have more intense side effects.

this is amazing truly, thank you so much!

You guys are the best, my best away around medicine

Wow that was great. I never believed that I could listen to such a long lecture so focused. You guys are amazing. Everything is so well structured and contains all the important key points together. Thank you so much for your effort. Much appreciated.

Great work as always...all medical students and doctors should watch your videos for best understanding of all topics...God bless u and your team..Much love from India

You are the best teacher ❤️ I always found seizures hard to study and understand. Now i understand them better 🙏🙏🙏🙏

Thank you. So informative in words that are open to all to understand.

The way you are saving my BNS. Much love from Uganda

Dear Zach, as usual your summaries are fantastic! Please note that deja vu and impending fear of doom are two different pre-ictal situations. (Deja vu in French means literally "already seen" and it's a feeling that what is happening right now has already happened, or you've already seen the scene/situation.)

Thanks for this channel and what you do

The youngest and the best teacher on you tube, ever!

Thank you so much!!! It was really helpful!

A very good demonstration of the absence seizure! =)))))))))

So thankful for this channel

Very nicely Explained, each and every concepts

Thank you for all you do. You are very easy to understand and make my studying easier in NP school!