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one unprovoked seizure and where there is a high risk of additional seizures in the future. Conditions that look like epileptic seizures but are not include:...

Non-epileptic seizures (NES), also known as non-epileptic events, are paroxysmal events that appear similar to an epileptic seizure but do not involve...

non-epileptic seizures (PNES), also referred to as pseudoseizures, non-epileptic attack disorder (NEAD), functional seizures, or dissociative seizures, are...

non-communicable neurological disorders characterized by recurrent epileptic seizures. An epileptic seizure is the clinical manifestation of an abnormal, excessive...

antiseizure drugs, or anti-seizure medications (ASM)) are a diverse group of pharmacological agents used in the treatment of epileptic seizures. Anticonvulsants...

in impact to the face or head. As with common epileptic occurrences, no first aid is needed post-seizure, except in the instances where falling injuries...

tonic–clonic seizures begin without warning and abruptly, but some epileptic patients describe a prodrome. The prodrome of a generalized tonic–clonic seizure is...

Seizure. 50: 209–218. doi:10.1016/j.seizure.2017.04.001. PMID 28532712. Ng, B. Y. (2002). "Psychiatric aspects of self-induced epileptic seizures"....

Because epileptic seizures typically include convulsions, the term convulsion is often used as a synonym for seizure. However, not all epileptic seizures result...

similar. The following people may have had one or more epileptic seizures but since the seizures were provoked, they do not result in a diagnosis of epilepsy:...

Absence seizures Atypical absence seizures Myoclonic seizures Clonic seizures Tonic seizures Tonic-clonic seizures Atonic seizures Unclassified epileptic seizures...

person's epileptic seizure or other seizure. When reliably trained such dogs can serve as service dogs for people with epilepsy. Tasks for seizure dogs may...

may be prenatal, perinatal (caused during birth) or postnatal. The epileptic seizures observed in infants with West syndrome, fall into three categories...

consciousness after an epileptic seizure. It usually lasts between 5 and 30 minutes, but sometimes longer in the case of larger or more severe seizures, and is characterized...

scene featuring repetitive visual effects that induced photosensitive epileptic seizures in a substantial number of Japanese viewers, with more than 600 children...

seizures are epileptic seizures that are consistently induced by a specific stimulus or trigger, making them distinct from other epileptic seizures,...

likely times of occurrence. Absence seizures are brief (usually less than 20 seconds) generalized epileptic seizures of sudden onset and termination. When...

years. The symptoms of these seizures can also be misconstrued as auras, especially for epileptics with multiple types of seizure diagnosis. This is due to...

and designing. In 1998, at age 38, she died in her sleep during an epileptic seizure caused by a birth defect. Griffith Joyner is buried at the El Toro...

occur, even in non-epileptics. Heavy drinking in particular has been shown to possibly have some effect on seizures in epileptics. But studies have not...