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reflex in the body. These usually occur when someone is very tired.
Once the causes of seizures were known, definitive treatments were developed. Today, 
treatments range from taking pills to having surgery. Treatment is personalized according to 
the type of seizure the patient has.
Even today, some people are unsure about seizures. Their most common mistake is 
thinking that a person having a seizure will swallow their tongue. They often shove some 
utensil in the person’s mouth. However, this doesn’t help. The utensil often blocks the 
airway and prevents the person from inhaling. Yet most of the public no longer fear people 
who have seizures. Instead, they can now help and comfort a person if they have a seizure.
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r e h e n s i o n
PART o Mark each statement 
T 
for true or F for false. Rewrite the false 
statements to make them true.
1.
Doctors who treated patients for seizures in the 1800s were influenced by primal
medical beliefs.
2.
Doctors still used outmoded treatments even after definitive treatments were developed.
3.
The cause of seizures used to be equated to the work of the Almighty.
4.
Today, care for people with seizures is better because treatment sessions are more
personalized.
5.
The cause of seizures pertain to misfired signals in the brain that cause a jerking
reflex in the body.
PART O Answer the questions.
1. Why would someone from the past be surprised by the novelty of today’s treatments for 
seizures?
2. How does a utensil placed in someone’s airway prevent them from inhaling?
3. During the advent of modern psychiatry, how were people treated in psychiatric hospitals?
4. What did some people believe constellations and lunar cycles could cause?
5. What did doctors force seizure patients to invoke in order to treat their seizures?
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