I don’t talk about this much, but I think it’s time. This is what someone with epilepsy looks like. I live with something called simple partial epilepsy, which are also known as focal aware seizures.

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Partial or focal seizures have localized symptoms; for example, they might affect just one arm. With simple partial focal seizures, the patient often has normal mentation throughout the episodes.

This is an epilepsy that is idiopathic and typically begins in children between 3 and 13 years of age. Most commonly it starts before onset of puberty. There are simple partial seizures that ...

When abnormal electrical activity only occurs in part of the brain, this is referred to as a partial seizure. Two forms of partial seizure exist: simple partial seizure where there is no loss of ...

Simple partial seizure – In a simple partial seizure, the seizure-related electrical discharges remain localized so that the person experiences a feeling, sensation, movement or other symptom ...

But Ms. Miller’s epilepsy took the form of simple partial seizures, which don’t cause such a dramatic shift in behavior, so she didn’t fully recognize the seizures in herself.

If the patient has a normal GI evaluation and other, more common causes for intermittent abdominal pain are excluded, she may benefit from screening for simple partial seizures and other ...

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For example, no epilepsy genes had been discovered back in the 1980s, but now 300 to 400 have been identified, with more to come.

Treatment with rufinamide results in a significant reduction in seizure frequency compared with placebo, for patients with uncontrolled partial-onset seizures (POS), researchers have found.