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Seizure
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Seizures (or convulsions) are temporary alterations in brain functions due to abnormal electrical activity of a group of brain cells that present with apparent clinical symptoms and findings. An isolated abnormal electrical activity recorded by an electroencephalography examination without a clinical presentation is not called a seizure.
Seizures can cause involuntary changes in body movement or function, sensation, awareness, or behavior. A seizure can last from a few seconds to a few minutes. There are more than 20 different types of seizures.
Seizures are often associated with epilepsy and related seizure disorders.
Seizure is often associated with a sudden and involuntary contraction of a group of muscles. However, a seizure can also be as subtle as marching numbness of a part of body, a brief loss of memory, sparkling of flashes, sniffing an unpleasant odor, a strange epigastric sensation or a sensation of fear. Therefore seizures are typically classified as motor, sensory, autonomic, emotional or cognitive.
Some seizure types are:
- petit mal seizure (an absence seizure, or very brief loss of consciousness)
- partial (focal) seizure (usually a motor or sensory seizure that is restricted to one side of the body)
- partial complex seizure (characterized by brief loss of consciousness, behavioral, emotional symptoms, loss of memory and automatisms; temporal lobe and frontal lobe seizures are often in this category)
- generalized tonic-clonic seizure (grand mal seizure; motor seizure of both sides of the body)
Symptoms experienced by a person during a seizure depend on where in the brain the disturbance in electrical activity occurs. Some seizures may be frightening to onlookers. A person having a tonic-clonic (grand mal) seizure may cry out, lose consciousness and fall to the ground, and convulse, often violently. A person having a complex partial seizure may appear confused or dazed and will not be able to respond to questions or direction. Some people have seizures that are not noticeable to others. Sometimes, the only clue that a person is having an absence (petit mal) seizure is rapid blinking or a few seconds of staring into space.
It is still disputable whether a febrile seizure has to be regarded as an epileptic disorder or not. In general, a patient with two or more episodes of seizures is accepted to have epilepsy (a condition also known as a seizure disorder.) Many people with epilepsy percieve "auras": telltale sensations such as strange lights, unpleasant smells or odd sensations before their seizures.
Major causes of seizures include head trauma, infection, tumors, metabolic alterations (e.g. low or high blood glucose levels), and as part of the withdrawal symptoms associated with certain classes of addictive drugs, especially sedatives such as barbiturates and benzodiazepines. Many seizures have unknown causes.
Seizures in pregnancy can be a sign of eclampsia.
External link
- MEDLINEplus: Seizures
In law, seizure can also refer to taking possession of an item: see search and seizure.