Mitch McConnell May Be Experiencing Small Seizures, Doctors Suggest (archive.ph)

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It's funny that the NYT publishes a "doctors suggest" article on McConnell. Finally they are slowly acknowledging what we've known for a very long time. If it seems the GOP is lying - they are.

Mitch McConnell May Be Experiencing Small Seizures, Doctors Suggest

While several possibilities were suggested, including mini-strokes, doctors said that the spells appeared most consistent with focal seizures, which are electrical surges in one region of the brain.

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Neurologists said they could not rule out other possible explanations for Mr. McConnell’s episodes. Dr. Gavin Britz, a neurosurgeon at Houston Methodist, said he would want to exclude Parkinson’s disease, which can also cause freezing episodes.

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[-] DiscoPosting@hexbear.net 33 points 1 year ago

de-encyclopedia — Focal seizures can occur for a number of benign reasons, such as lacking dietary sodium, hormone changes, and insomnia. More concerning root causes include transient ischemic attacks, brain tumors, and degenerative brain diseases like Alzheimer's or frontotemporal dementia.

de-logic [Easy: Failure] — Mitch McConnell is in the prime of his life. There's no way it's anything other than insomnia.

[-] InevitableSwing@hexbear.net 9 points 1 year ago

Focal seizures can occur for a number of benign reasons... insomnia.

Oh - that's great. I have terrible insomnia. And now I have yet one more thing to keep me awake.

[-] DiscoPosting@hexbear.net 29 points 1 year ago

de-volition — A lot of things can theoretically cause other things. Your insomnia isn't likely to trigger a seizure — and McConnell's seizures aren't likely to be triggered by insomnia.