Your Eyes and Epilepsy – NVISION Article

Epilepsy can be a dominating disorder - tonic-clonic, status elepticus, temporal lobe and even the small absence/petit mal seizures can, and usually do, distort one's consciousness. This is well explained by NVISION centers in their post  Your Eyes & Epilepsy (Critical Knowledge) from the NVISION Eye Centers website.

One's eyes conditions like the following show physicians what part(s) of the brain are most impacted and to roughly what extent.

• Rapid blinking.

• Staring into space, unable to process visual stimuli.

• Loss of field of vision.

• Visual hallucinations.

• Eye deviation.

This assists the doctors determine the type and dosage of medicines to prescribe to help control their type of seizures.