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| Consciousness is preserved |
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| Symptoms vary depending on part of brain affected: invoulutnary, repetitive movement (motor cortex), paresthesias (sensory cortex), flashing lights (visual cortex), etc |
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| Spread to ipsilateral regions within cortex (Jacksonian march) |
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| Also called temporal lobe epilepsy |
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| Altered consciousness (cessation of activity, loss of contact with reality) |
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Symptoms typically result from abnormal activity in temporal lobe (amygdala, hippocampus) or frontal lobe
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| Often associated with automatisms |
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| Impaired memory of ictal phase |
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| Partial seizure with secondary generalization |
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| Initially manifests with symptoms of complex or simple partial seizures |
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| Partial seizure with secondary generalizations |
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| Evolves into a tonic-clonic seizure with sustained contraction (tonic) followed by rhythmic movements (clonic) of all limbs |
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| Partial seizures with secondary generalizations |
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| Partial seizures with secondary generalizations |
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| Sudden, brief interruption of consciousness |
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| Brief, (1 second or less) muscle contraction; symptoms may occur in individual muscle or generalize to all muscle groups of the body (the latter can result in falling) |
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| Associated with systemic disease states such as uremia, hepatic failure, hereditary degenerative condition, Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease |
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| Sustained contraction followed by rhythmic movements of all limbs that is abrupt and is not preceded by an aura |
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