I vaguely recall at some point being told by a brilliant ER doctor, somewhere, sometime, or something, (I must have been postictal or psychotic and woozy still) that the sodium channels in the brain that are involved in seizures could be comparable to a very tall Jenga game - and seizures are like losing at Jenga - the tower falls - but the seizure doesn't "fall", it activates a chain reaction in the sodium channel - but with seizures the Jenga game goes on because it's so tall (not to indicate that the sodium channels are "tall" per se, but just to act as a comparison) - and that after the first "Jenga" it makes the tower more prone to have more "Jengas".
Our "turn" at Jenga isn't to remove more blocks though - our turn is to try to support the tower. Good diet, sodium-based medications ( and avoiding bad behaviors are ways to do so.
But, after the first jenga, additional jengas become more likely because the jenga process destabilizes the tower.
I recall someone talking about having a large phenytoin pill and using it as a Jenga piece to try to wedge it back between a gap left by jenga-ing
gaps are where axons start firing and then it starts jenga-ing again
wow that's a vague recollection - eerie and emotional - I got a little weepy :'o
so those axon positions can start firing from different stimuli, because they become active somehow or another - I guess using the jenga analogy, when blocks become jostled, but not removed completely, but through the jostling they become easier to remove
Hasbro better send me a check for this