{"id":79290,"date":"2025-11-14T19:23:41","date_gmt":"2025-11-14T19:23:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/psychologydictionary.ae\/convulsions\/"},"modified":"2026-01-12T11:39:46","modified_gmt":"2026-01-12T11:39:46","slug":"convulsions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/psychologydictionary.ae\/en\/convulsions\/","title":{"rendered":"Convulsions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>involuntary muscle contractions, characterized by a high degree of muscle tension. A distinction is made between tonic cramps &#8211; prolonged muscle tension, and clonic cramps &#8211; short-term jolt-like contractions. Convulsions occur spontaneously as a reaction to certain external and internal stimuli; can be a consequence of epilepsy, organic brain lesions. In children, they easily occur at an early age, which, as a rule, is due to the immaturity of the central nervous system, under the influence of infections, injuries, psychogenic influences. There are special anticonvulsants that are prescribed by a doctor in parallel with the course of treatment of the underlying disease that caused the seizures.    <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>involuntary muscle contractions, characterized by a high degree of muscle tension. A distinction is made between tonic cramps &#8211; prolonged muscle tension, and clonic cramps &#8211; short-term jolt-like contractions. Convulsions occur spontaneously as a reaction to certain external and internal stimuli; can be a consequence of epilepsy, organic brain lesions. In children, they easily occur [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_topic_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_reply_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[131],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-79290","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-key-psychological-concepts-in-special-populations-psychology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/psychologydictionary.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79290","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/psychologydictionary.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/psychologydictionary.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/psychologydictionary.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/psychologydictionary.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=79290"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/psychologydictionary.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79290\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":79291,"href":"https:\/\/psychologydictionary.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79290\/revisions\/79291"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/psychologydictionary.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=79290"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/psychologydictionary.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=79290"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/psychologydictionary.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=79290"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}