Focal sensory seizure with hot-cold sensations
A focal seizure characterized by sensations of feeling hot and then cold.
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Focal sensory vestibular seizure
A focal seizure characterized by symptoms of dizziness, spinning, vertigo or sense of rotation. These seizures involve the parietal cortex, temporo-parieto-occipital junction or parieto-temporal cortex.
Focal sensory visual seizure
A focal seizure characterized by elementary visual hallucinations such as flashing or flickering lights/colours, or other shapes, simple patterns, scotomata, or amaurosis. More complex visual hallucinations such as seeing formed images are considered a focal cognitive seizure. Focal sensory visual seizures arise in the occipital lobe.
Focal somatosensory seizure
A focal seizure characterized by sensory phenomena including tingling, numbness, electric-shock like sensation, pain, sense of movement, or desire to move. These seizures involve the sensorimotor cortex.
Focused Ultrasound
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Frontal lobe seizure foci
A partial seizure arising in the frontal lobe area of the brain.
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Gelastic seizure
A focal emotional seizure with laughter. Also see Focal emotional seizure with laughing (gelastic).
Generalized seizure
A seizure that involves both sides of the brain and causes tonic and clonic movements (primary or secondary generalized) or another type of primary generalized epilepsy (e.g., absence or atonic seizure).
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