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  • What is HH?
    • Patient Journey
      • Could it be HH?
      • Newly Diagnosed
      • Going for Treatment
      • Living with HH
      • Adults with HH
    • What is HH?
      • Understanding HH
      • What is a Gelastic Seizure?
      • The Hypothalamus
      • The Symptoms
      • Anatomy of HH
      • Impact on the Family
    • Treatment
      • Treatment Options
      • Treatment Facilities
      • Financial Information
  • About Hope for HH
    • Our Team
      • Board of Directors
      • Medical Advisory Board
      • Partners
    • About Us
      • About Hope for HH
      • Our Vision
      • Our Impact
    • Our Why
      • In Memory
      • Meet Other Families
  • News & Research
    • Stay Informed
      • Newsletter Sign-up
      • Past Newsletters
      • Join Contact Registry
      • Facebook Community
    • Research
      • Research Grants
      • How You Can Participate in Research
      • HH Research Articles
    • Resources
      • Doctor FAQs
      • Educational Brochures
      • Talks on HH Topics
      • Helpful Links
      • Recommended Books
      • Glossary
  • Take Action
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Glossary

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A

  • Absence seizure
  • Ambulatory EEG monitoring
  • Americans with Disabilities Act
  • Antiepileptic drug
  • Anxiety
  • Atonic seizure
  • Attention deficit disorder (ADD)
  • Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD)
  • Atypical absence seizure
  • Aura
  • Autism Spectrum Disorders
  • Auto-Aggressive Behavior
  • Autonomic Nervous System

B

  • Bipolar Disorder

C

  • Clonic seizure
  • Cognitive
  • Comorbidity
  • Complex partial seizure
  • Comprehensive epilepsy centers
  • Computerized Tomography (CT)
  • Conduct Disorder
  • Convulsion

D

  • Dacrystic seizure
  • Deficit
  • Deja vu
  • Depression
  • Development
  • Diabetes Insipidous

E

  • Efficacy
  • Electroencepahalogram (EEG)
  • Encephalitis
  • Endocrine System
  • Endocrinologist
  • Epilepsy
  • Epilepsy syndrome
  • Epileptogenesis
  • Epileptogenic
  • Epileptologist
  • Executive Function

F

  • Febrile seizure
  • Focal emotional seizure
  • Focal emotional seizure with anger
  • Focal emotional seizure with crying (dacrystic)
  • Focal emotional seizure with fear/anxiety/panic
  • Focal emotional seizure with laughing (gelastic)
  • Focal emotional seizure with pleasure
  • Focal sensory auditory seizure
  • Focal sensory gustatory seizure
  • Focal sensory olfactory seizure
  • Focal sensory seizure with cephalic sensation
  • Focal sensory seizure with hot-cold sensations
  • Focal sensory vestibular seizure
  • Focal sensory visual seizure
  • Focal somatosensory seizure
  • Focused Ultrasound
  • Frontal lobe seizure foci

G

  • Gamma knife radiosurgery (GKS)
  • Gelastic seizure
  • Generalized seizure
  • Geneticist
  • Growth Hormone (GH)

H

  • Hemispherectomy
  • Homeostasis
  • Hospitalists
  • Hydrocephalus
  • Hyperthyrodism (overactive thyroid)
  • Hypothalamic Hamartoma
  • Hypothalamic Obesity
  • Hypothalamic Rage
  • Hypothalamus
  • Hypothyroidism (underactive thyroid)

I

  • Ictal
  • Idiopathic
  • Idiopathic generalized epilepsies
  • Impulse Control Disorder
  • Incidence
  • Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA)
  • Infantile spasm
  • Inhibitory
  • Interictal
  • Interictal epileptiform
  • Interictal psychosis
  • Interstitial Radiosurgery
  • Intractable
  • Intrahypothalamic (sessile)

J

  • Juvenile myoclonic epilepsy (JME)

K

  • Ketogenic diet

L

  • Left temporal seizure foci
  • Lennox-Gastaut syndrome
  • Limbic System

M

  • Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI)
  • Magnetoencephalography (MEG)
  • Migraine
  • Mood Disorder
  • MRI-guided laser thermal ablation
  • Muscle tone
  • Myoclonic jerk
  • Myoclonic seizure

N

  • Neuro-ophthalmologist
  • Neurologist
  • Neuropsychologist
  • Neurosurgeon
  • Neurotransmitter
  • Nuclear Medicine
  • Nurse navigators
  • Nurse practitioners

O

  • Obsessive Compulsive Disorder
  • Oppositional Defiant Disorder
  • Orbitozygomatic Approach
  • Orthopedist

P

  • Pallister-Hall Syndrome
  • Panhypopituitarism
  • Parahypothalamic (pendunculated)
  • Pedunculated
  • Phonology
  • Pituitary gland
  • Podiatrist
  • Polydipsia
  • Polyuria
  • Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD)
  • Precocious Puberty
  • Primary care physician
  • Psychiatrist
  • Psychopharmocotherapy

R

  • Rage Attack
  • Rehabilitative specialists
  • Resting State functional MRI (rs-fMRI)

S

  • Seizure
  • Seizure Focus
  • Seizure threshold
  • Selective Serotonin Reuptake Inhibitor (SSRI)
  • Sensory
  • Sessile
  • Sharp wave
  • Simple partial seizure
  • Slowing
  • Social Security Disability Income (SSDI)
  • Social worker
  • Spell
  • Spike
  • Status epilepticus
  • Steady state
  • Structural lesion
  • Sudden Unexpected Death in Epilepsy (SUDEP)
  • Supplemental Security Income (SSI)
  • Symptomatic
  • Syndrome

T

  • Task-based functional MRI (tb-fMRI)
  • Temporal lobe seizure
  • Thalamus
  • Therapeutic blood level
  • Tonic seizure
  • Tonic-clonic seizure
  • Trauma

U

  • Ultrasound

V

  • Vagus nerve stimulator (VNS)
  • Video Electroencepahalogram (VEEG)
  • Video Electroencepahalogram (VEEG) monitoring


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