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Dr. Suzanne O'Sullivan

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813 total appearances

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Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Suzanne O'Sullivan (on over diagnosis)

For a neurologist who deals with seizures, it's phenomenally easy because they don't look anything alike and they don't behave in the same way. I won't go into the small details, but epileptic seizures tend to be incredibly brief. They last a few seconds or a minute.

Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Suzanne O'Sullivan (on over diagnosis)

For a neurologist who deals with seizures, it's phenomenally easy because they don't look anything alike and they don't behave in the same way. I won't go into the small details, but epileptic seizures tend to be incredibly brief. They last a few seconds or a minute.

Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Suzanne O'Sullivan (on over diagnosis)

For a neurologist who deals with seizures, it's phenomenally easy because they don't look anything alike and they don't behave in the same way. I won't go into the small details, but epileptic seizures tend to be incredibly brief. They last a few seconds or a minute.

Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Suzanne O'Sullivan (on over diagnosis)

They behave in a certain way, whereas these seizures that you get for psychological reasons tend to last for much longer and have a sort of different pattern of behavior. I think it's very difficult for a non-specialist doctor to tell the difference. But if you've heard people describing epileptic seizures enough times, you can tell the difference very easily.

Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Suzanne O'Sullivan (on over diagnosis)

They behave in a certain way, whereas these seizures that you get for psychological reasons tend to last for much longer and have a sort of different pattern of behavior. I think it's very difficult for a non-specialist doctor to tell the difference. But if you've heard people describing epileptic seizures enough times, you can tell the difference very easily.

Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Suzanne O'Sullivan (on over diagnosis)

They behave in a certain way, whereas these seizures that you get for psychological reasons tend to last for much longer and have a sort of different pattern of behavior. I think it's very difficult for a non-specialist doctor to tell the difference. But if you've heard people describing epileptic seizures enough times, you can tell the difference very easily.

Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Suzanne O'Sullivan (on over diagnosis)

First of all, if you do a brainwave test where you just put the stickers on the head where you're measuring the brainwaves, an epileptic seizure is caused by a burst of unwanted electrical activity. You will see that electrical burst when the person has a seizure.

Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Suzanne O'Sullivan (on over diagnosis)

First of all, if you do a brainwave test where you just put the stickers on the head where you're measuring the brainwaves, an epileptic seizure is caused by a burst of unwanted electrical activity. You will see that electrical burst when the person has a seizure.

Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Suzanne O'Sullivan (on over diagnosis)

First of all, if you do a brainwave test where you just put the stickers on the head where you're measuring the brainwaves, an epileptic seizure is caused by a burst of unwanted electrical activity. You will see that electrical burst when the person has a seizure.

Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Suzanne O'Sullivan (on over diagnosis)

If you do an EEG in someone having these psychosomatic seizures called dissociative seizures, even when they're unconscious and completely unresponsive, you see a normal waking brainwave pattern.

Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Suzanne O'Sullivan (on over diagnosis)

If you do an EEG in someone having these psychosomatic seizures called dissociative seizures, even when they're unconscious and completely unresponsive, you see a normal waking brainwave pattern.

Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Suzanne O'Sullivan (on over diagnosis)

If you do an EEG in someone having these psychosomatic seizures called dissociative seizures, even when they're unconscious and completely unresponsive, you see a normal waking brainwave pattern.

Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Suzanne O'Sullivan (on over diagnosis)

It's Looks awake, but for some reason, people are not able to access that awake part of the brain.

Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Suzanne O'Sullivan (on over diagnosis)

It's Looks awake, but for some reason, people are not able to access that awake part of the brain.

Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Suzanne O'Sullivan (on over diagnosis)

It's Looks awake, but for some reason, people are not able to access that awake part of the brain.

Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Suzanne O'Sullivan (on over diagnosis)

If you look to the brainwaves of someone in one of those seizures, they look normal.

Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Suzanne O'Sullivan (on over diagnosis)

If you look to the brainwaves of someone in one of those seizures, they look normal.

Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Suzanne O'Sullivan (on over diagnosis)

If you look to the brainwaves of someone in one of those seizures, they look normal.

Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Suzanne O'Sullivan (on over diagnosis)

If you look at the brain in a different way, so you mentioned FMR,

Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Suzanne O'Sullivan (on over diagnosis)

If you look at the brain in a different way, so you mentioned FMR,