Does epilepsy affect the brain?

According to experts, the brain injury of epileptic patients is directly proportional to time. If the patient can't do a good job of nursing, it will cause serious harm to the patient's body. Once diagnosed as epilepsy, you should take medicine continuously for 2 ~ 5 years. In order to prevent forgetting, the medicine can be put in a fixed place and taken at a fixed time every day. According to research, the IQ of epileptic patients is generally lower than that of normal people. Epilepsy not only harms patients' health and intelligence, but also causes certain psychological harm to patients. Does epilepsy affect the brain? Psycholinguistic disorder: Mental disorder is the decline of comprehensive ability, which is the most common phenomenon in patients with intractable epilepsy. Mental retardation is closely related to the frequency of seizures, the length of the course of disease, and the scope and degree of brain injury. The most serious can develop into dementia, which is mainly manifested in the overall decline of cognition, memory, attention, calculation, judgment, understanding and comprehensive analysis. Language dysfunction is another prominent manifestation of patients with intractable epilepsy. Mainly manifested in the decline of verbal expression, verbal communication and verbal application ability. Dyskinesia, attention and memory: Epilepsy patients generally have less dyskinesia and a lesser degree. Unless the epileptic focus is directly located in the motor area. The occurrence of dyskinesia is generally manifested as simple psychomotor disorder and complex psychomotor disorder. Attention and memory disorders are another characteristic manifestation of intractable epilepsy. The attention of these patients is generally difficult to concentrate for a long time, and their attention is easily disturbed and diverted. Its characteristic is that it is difficult to master new learning content. Emotional and personality disorders, cognitive disorders: Emotional and personality disorders are more common in intractable epilepsy, also known as epileptic personality. It is characterized by emotional instability, irritability, depression and impulsiveness, as well as depression, anxiety and ignorance of one's personality defects. Epilepsy patients may also have cognitive impairment, which is manifested in some aspects of cognition, such as attention, psychomotor rate, memory and learning ability, executive function and academic performance. Social adaptation disorder: The social adaptation disorder of epilepsy patients involves a wide range. Mainly for education, further studies, employment, social interaction, self-care ability and so on. Due to diseases, many patients' abilities are affected to varying degrees, which leads to the decline of social adaptability.