The shocks cause short seizures, similar to epileptic convulsions, that, for reasons not understood, have a beneficial effect on some patients.

But that image is soon replaced with those of his illness - epileptic convulsions, wheelchairs and partial paralysis.

"A generalized tonic-clonic attack, like an epileptic convulsion.

NMDA and metabotropic types have been found to induce epileptic convulsions.

Its ingredients can also relieve pain and ease or prevent high blood pressure, epileptic convulsions, nausea, asthma and the eye disease glaucoma, scientists say.

Ebola destroys the brain more thoroughly than does Marburg, and Ebola victims often go into epileptic convulsions during the final stage.

The commonest cause of unconscious delivery is eclampsia (sudden onset of epileptic convulsions), but any medical cause of coma can have this effect.

There was no relief, no let-up, not even the most momentary respite from this murderous assault on the nervous system that triggered off those uncontrollable epileptic convulsions.

Gone is the agonized, pathological gambler of legend, the sadomasochistic lover, the demanding friend and splenetic adversary collapsing in epileptic convulsions on the floor at moments of emotional intensity.

A few days later he had a violent attack of gout, and on the 4th of June he became alarmingly ill, and on the next day had an attack of epileptic convulsions.

The results were not overly encouraging as one patient died five days after the operation after experiencing epileptic convulsions, one improved but later committed suicide, another two showed no change, and the last two patients became "quieter".

He operated on six patients in total and, according to his own assessment, two experienced no change, two patients became quieter, one patient experienced epileptic convulsions and died a few days after the operation, and one patient improved.

As I understood her, there was this journalist in Washington named Beckner whom no one on Wall Street had ever laid eyes on but whose articles about Federal Reserve Board policy regularly sent the whole of the multitrillion-dollar American bond market into epileptic convulsions.

Even the joists of the ceiling seemed to creak and murmur, and the heat rippled the air until Miss Johnson, her head back and her white throat working like someone in an epileptic convulsion, appeared to be melting and dissolving in front of my eyes.

Additionally, Paul's blindness remitted in sudden fashion, rather than the gradual resolution typical of post-ictal states, and no mention is made of epileptic convulsions; indeed such convulsions may, in Paul's time, have been interpreted as a sign of demonic influence, unlikely in someone accepted as a religious leader.