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Bookmark or Share- The Truth about Psychogenic Nonepileptic Seizures - Epilepsy FoundationFrequently, people with PNES may look like they are experiencing generalized convulsions similar to tonic-clonic seizures with falling and shaking. Less frequently, PNES may mimic absence seizures or focal impaired awareness (previously called complex partial) seizures. A physician may suspect PNES when the seizures have unusual features, such ...
- Types of Seizures - Epilepsy FoundationFocal Onset Seizures. The term focal is used instead of partial to be more accurate when talking about where seizures begin. Focal seizures can start in one area or group of cells in one side of the brain. Focal onset aware seizures: When a person is awake and aware during a seizure, it’s called a focal aware seizure. This used to be called a ...
- What Happens During a Seizure? | Epilepsy FoundationSeizures can take on many different forms, and seizures affect different people in different ways. Anything that the brain does normally can also occur during a seizure when the brain is activated by seizure discharges. Some people call this activity “electrical storms” in the brain. Seizures have a beginning, middle, and end.
- Gelastic and Dacrystic Seizures - Epilepsy FoundationOften the seizures go unrecognized until some other seizure type appears. These seizures begin in infancy in 1 out of 3 children. The average age when gelastic seizures start is around 10 months. Gelastic seizures often happen as a child is falling asleep, but they can occur at any time.
- Understanding Seizures | Is It Epilepsy? - Epilepsy FoundationSeizures involve sudden, temporary, bursts of electrical activity in the brain that change or disrupt the way messages are sent between brain cells. These electrical bursts can cause involuntary changes in body movement or function, sensation, behavior or awareness.
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