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Mia Tuft er nevropsykolog og jobber med sjeldne epilepsirelaterte diagnoser ved Oslo universitetssykehus.
Articles by Mia Tuft
The Metamorphosis
- Mia Tuft
08.04.2019:
Kafka's short story The Metamorphosis reminds us of our vulnerability and how we may all find ourselves alienated. 'One morning, as Gregor Samsa was waking up from anxious dreams, he discovered that in bed he had been changed into a monstrous verminous bug.' This is the first line of the famous...
10.12.2018:
The author Edgar Allan Poe is one of many artists who describe how it feels to live with major, involuntary changes of consciousness. Are the large upturns and downturns in his life attributable to a neurological conditions, or can substance use and depressive thoughts explain these fluctuations...
Epilepsy and anxiety
- Mia Tuft,
- Oliver Henning,
- Karl O. Nakken
30.10.2018:
Up to one-quarter of people with epilepsy have mental health disorders in addition to seizures. Depression has received the most attention although anxiety disorders occur just as frequently, if not more so. Even though psychiatric symptoms can reduce quality of life more than epileptic seizures...
Landau-Kleffner syndrome
- Mia Tuft,
- Marte Årva,
- Marit Bjørnvold,
- John Aage Wilson,
- Karl O. Nakken
01.12.2015:
Landau-Kleffner syndrome is a rare childhood-onset epileptic encephalopathy. The condition should be suspected if a child with normal development shows a fairly abrupt loss of established language skills. Such children should be referred to a regional department of paediatric medicine or the...
Treatment for psychogenic non-epileptic seizures
- Mia Tuft,
- Hilde Nordahl Karterud,
- Antonia Villagran,
- Karl O. Nakken
08.09.2015:
The main differential diagnosis of epilepsy among young adults is psychogenic non-epileptic seizures. Such seizures may manifest themselves in very different ways and usually have complex root causes. Optimal treatment of persons experiencing seizures of this type requires close cooperation between...
Epilepsy as stigma – evil, holy or mad?
- Mia Tuft,
- Karl O. Nakken
09.12.2014:
Ideas that appear very strange to us have shaped views of epilepsy throughout our history. A number of creative, but mostly ineffective cures have been attempted. Older writings testify to the fact that persons with epileptic seizures have been discriminated against throughout history. We can hardly...
Epilepsy and stigma in popular music
- Mia Tuft,
- Karl O. Nakken
09.12.2014:
Through the ages, people with epilepsy have been subject to stigmatisation. To what extent is this still a reality? The depiction of epilepsy in contemporary popular music may reflect these attitudes. Throughout our history, epilepsy has remained a disease associated with stigmatisation (1, 2). To...