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What is the kindling effect?
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Kindling effect: The word kindling is a metaphor, the increase in responce to small stimuli is similar to the way small burning twigs can produce large fire.It is used to study the effects of repeated seizures on the brain.A seizure may increase the likelihood of more seizures to come.Repeated stimulaion lowers the threshhood for more seizures.In both humansand animals evidence support this hypothesis kindling.
Answered 3/26/2013
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I am awoken 3-5 times in the night because my right arm is locked up at the elbow with roughly a 4 in the pain scale. To ease the pain I have to force my elbow joint to open which sounds like splitting kindling and some pain. Noise drives wife crzy?
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