Seizures

Question 1

Focal onset awareness (simple-partial) seizure

Answer 1

*Localized seizure

-does not affect consciousness

Question 2

Focal onset impaired awareness (complex) seizure

Answer 2

*localized seizure

-change in consciousness
-may start with an aura

Question 3

Temporal lobe seizure

Answer 3

-most common localized seizure
-may have aura
-strong taste or smell
-de ja vu

Question 4

Frontal lobe seizure

Answer 4

-second most common localized seizure
-often occurs during sleep
-last less than 30 seconds

Question 5

Tonic-clonic seizures

Answer 5

*Generalized onset motor
*Grand mal

• loss of consciousness
  -Tonic phase = stiffening of muscles
  -clonic = jerking

Question 6

Absent seizures

Answer 6

*generalized onset nonmotor
*petit mal

-brief loss of consciousness
-blank or absent stair
-eyes may turn inward or flutter