NSSEâs A Guide to Contextualizing Your NSSE Data: Cognitive Interviews and Focus Groups is a step-by-step guide designed to help institutions develop this type of richer understanding of their NSSE data. 1  Cognitive interviews. 2  Focus groups. 3  NSSE 2013 Update.
Seizures can also occur in people who do not have epilepsy for various reasons including brain trauma, drug use, elevated body temperature, low blood sugar and low levels of oxygen. Additionally, there are a number of conditions that look like epileptic seizures but are not.
Among other factors, the main effects of hypocapnia caused by hyperventilation in relation to the seizures cause are: - increased excitability of nerve cells that lowers seizure threshold. - reduced brain-oxygen level and increased cellular acidity (low pH in cells) - reduced glucose availability for the brain.