Template:Seizure types

Seizure Types

• Generalized (diffuse brain overactivity)
  • Tonic-clonic, tonic, clonic, myoclonic
  • Absence
  • Atonic
• Partial (specific area in brain affected)
  • Partial seizures with secondary generalization

• 1 hemisphere (partial)
  • maintain baseline mental status (simple)
  • alteration mental status (complex).
• both hemispheres (generalized)

• Simple (consciousness not impaired)
• Complex (consciousness necessarily impaired)