Epilepsy causes repeated seizures and is one of the most common neurological condition. The seizures are caused by bursts of electrical activity in ...
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Benign focal childhood epilepsy is a common form of epilepsy in children, causing seizures that make the muscles all over the body stiffen and jerk. B...
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Generalized tonic-clonic (grand mal) seizures are the easiest seizures to recognize. They happen most often in people with generalized epilepsy of unk...
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Seizures are the only visible symptom of epilepsy. There are different kinds of seizures, and symptoms of each type can affect people differently. Sei...
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Temporal lobe epilepsy involves the portions of the brain that control emotions and memory. The temporal lobes are located on each side of the head ju...
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An absence seizure is a brief—5 to 15 seconds—but total loss of awareness that occurs suddenly without any warning and ends as suddenly as it begins. ...
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Complex partial seizures occur in children and adults with certain forms of epilepsy. They are the most common type of seizure in adults.
An aura m...
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Fever seizures (sometimes called fever convulsions) are uncontrolled muscle spasms that can occur in children who have a rapid increase in body temper...
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Epilepsy that causes partial seizures is sometimes called focal epilepsy because the seizures start at a specific focus or location within the brain. ...
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Epilepsy that causes generalized seizures is more common in children than in adults. Unlike partial seizures, which begin in a specific, often damaged...
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Lennox-Gastaut syndrome (LGS) is a rare disorder that typically becomes apparent during infancy or early childhood. The disorder is characterized by f...
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Simple partial seizures occur in children and adults with some forms of epilepsy. They are about half as common as complex partial seizures.
The p...
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