User talk:R.EEGbrittry

Hi Britt! It's nice to (virtually) meet you. Welcome to Wikipedia! I'm here for pretty much anything you need during the semester, so you can ask me anything. I'm not just available on my talk page, you can also email me, and if you need live help, I can work something out (Skype, face-to-face, IRC, etc.). If for some reason I'm not around (probably because of an exam or something), you can ask a question at the Teahouse. It's a friendly place for new editors to ask any questions they may have and get help from experienced Wikipedians. I've also left you a welcome box below with some links you should read at some point, if you haven't already. They'll just help orient you to Wikipedia and help you start to learn how to edit. One more thing, it really helps other editors when you sign your posts on talk pages. All you have to do is type ~ at the end of your message. Let me know if you need help with anything. Once again, welcome! All the best, Keilana&#124;Parlez ici 21:41, 5 September 2012 (UTC)

Roosevelt Univ PSYC 336
Hi Brittany. Thank you for clarifying that Lennox-Gestaut is classified as a myoclonic epilepsy by textbooks. Please proceeds as your group planned. Neuropsychprof (talk) 18:13, 11 October 2012 (UTC)

Citing references
Hi Britt! Citing references can be really tricky, I know. My preferred method uses a template called sfn; here's how to use it - if you don't understand something, please ask, also, you can look at Andromeda (constellation) for an example. The first thing you have to do is create a references section at the bottom of the article. That'll have a heading that looks like == References ==. Then you break that down into citations and references. First you put a heading of Citations and then the list of inline citations from the article by typing. Then, you put another heading of References and, unfortunately, that's when it gets a little difficult.

Since you don't have experience with wiki markup, I'm just going to give you the basic templates for books, journals, and websites; if you need more I can teach you about the master citation template. For a book, you start it with an asterisk to make it a bulleted list and then type the cite book template. The things that start with | are parameters, and you can just copy and paste it into your article. It looks like this: The parameters should be pretty self explanatory, last is the author's last name, etc. You don't need to fill in all of them, but you do need to leave the part about "ref = harv" in no matter what. Also, if you have more than one author, you can add "last1", "first1", "last2", "first2", etc. The other templates, cite web and cite journal, are pretty similar, they just have slightly different parameters. Here they are: and. The "title" parameter for cite journal is the title of the article and "journal" is the journal's name; that can be confusing sometimes. You can also put a range of pages in if you're just using one chapter in a book, for example, but most page numbers are going to go in the inline citation. Ok, you're halfway done! I know this is really confusing. It took me awhile to sort it all out...so don't be afraid to ask questions if something doesn't make sense.

So now you have to do the citations within the article. These are like normal citations, they go at the end of a sentence when you're citing a fact from another source. It's actually really easy to do inline citations, all you have to put in is the last name of the author, the year, and the page number (if there is one). It'll look like this usually:. There are a couple variations. If you have more than one author, it'll look like this:. If you have a page range or something, then it'll look like this:. And that's about it! I hope this helps!

One more thing - I think you accidentally left me a message on my user page instead of my talk page; you can make sure you're on a talk page by checking to make sure the title of the page starts with "User talk:". Good luck with your article! All the best, Keilana&#124;Parlez ici 23:31, 16 October 2012 (UTC)

Talkback
Smallman12q (talk) 02:51, 17 October 2012 (UTC)

October 2012
Hello, and thank you for your contributions to Wikipedia. I've noticed that you have been adding your signature to some of your edits to articles, such as the edit you made to Myoclonic epilepsy. This is a common mistake to make and has probably already been corrected. Please do not sign your edits to article content, as the article's edit history serves the function of attributing contributions, so you only need to use your signature to make discussions more readable, such as on article talk pages or project pages such as the Village Pump. If you would like further information about distinguishing types of pages, please see What is an article?. Again, thank you for contributing, and enjoy your Wikipedia experience! Thank you. ''The draft you saved has many issues in it. If you want to make the page better, work out all the issues before saving it. Otherwise the page looks bad for everyone else.''  Hair Talk 23:50, 22 October 2012 (UTC)

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What is Myoclonus?

Myoclonus can be described as brief jerks of the body. It can be any part of the body but it’s mostly seen in patient’s limbs or facial muscles. Myclonus jerks can be epileptic or no epileptic. If the jerks are no epileptic they are not caused by over firing of neurons in the brain. But they may be due to some nervous system disorder. If the myoclonic jerks are correlated with abnormalities in brain wave activity, evaluated of the possible cause will be investigated. When myoclonic jerks are associated with abnormal brain wave activity to just two seizures it can be categorized as a myoclonic seizure. If the abnormal brain wave activity is persistent and results from ongoing seizures, the person will be diagnosed with myoclonic epilepsy. After much testing is done on a patient suffering from myoclonic epilepsy, doctors are more able to make the diagnosis of idiopathic, encephalopathic or if it correlates with a degenerative syndrome.

What are Myoclonic Epilepsies?

There are various forms of epilepsy that fall under myoclonic epilepsies. Myoclonic seizures are seizures that can occur a couple times but do not last throughout the patient’s life. The diagnosis of myoclonic epilepsy takes place when the patient experiences ongoing seizures throughout one’s life. The myoclonic epilepsies and seizures are categorized according to if the patient experiences jerking, or twitching of the body. The jerks are usually involuntary and can be responsible for multiple falls. Some seizures forms of the epilepsy group can be resistant to anti-epileptic drugs and is often associated with cognitive impairment. Myoclonic seizures usually begin in early childhood as astactic seizures with jerks so strong that it can cause falling. Eventually as the child grows it can lead into a diagnosis of idiopathic epilepsy syndrome or encephalopathic epilepsy syndrome.

Usage of EEG-

The EEG can be used to read brain wave activity from the scalp in patients with myoclonic  epilepsies. Spike activity produced from the brain is usually correlated with brief jerks seen on the EEG as EMG or excessive muscle artifact. They usually occur without detectable loss of consciousness and may be generalized, regional or focal on the EEG tracing. . Epileptic myoclonus is an elementary electroclinical manifestation of epilepsy involving descending neurons, whose spatial (spread) or temporal (self-sustained repetition) amplification can trigger overt epileptic activity. .

Here we will go into the different disorders….. Differenent Disorders associated with Myolonic Seizures Lennox Progressive Jme Generalized tonic clonic seizures Generalized clonic Atyical seizure Atonic seizure