003: Classification of Seizures – Part 2

In this episode, our host and long-time uncontrolled epilepsy sufferer,  David Clifford, dives deep into how medical professionals from your doctors, nurses, and pharmacists classify the different types of Seizures.

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What You Should Already Know

• A Focal Seizure is one that hits one or more locations on one side of the brain.
• A Generalized Seizure is one that encompasses both sides of the brain.

What You’ll Learn

Common symptoms of a Focal seizure are:

• staring
• chewing
• swallowing
• clenching of the jaw
• grinding their teeth
• sensations like Deja Vu

The Generalized Seizure class can be broken down further into:

• Absence: common in children this difficult to diagnose as it is commonly mistaken for daydreaming..
• Tonic: causes muscles to suddenly stiffen.
• Atonic: causes muscles to suddenly relax Also called “drop seizures”.
• Myoclonic – a sudden jerk of the limbs.
• Clonic – a rhymic jerking of the body.

The Epilepsy Community is in the middle of a great migration with the definition of their nomenclature.

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