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"Define Seizure - CORRECT ANSWER=> A sudden, involuntary time-limited alteration in
behavior, including a change in motor activity, in autonomic function, in consciousness or
sensation, accompanied by an abnormal electrical discharge in the brain"
"Define Epilepsy - CORRECT ANSWER=> ≥ 2 seizures
Epilepsy is a central nervous system disorder (neurological disorder) in which the nerve cell
activity in you brain is disturbed, causing a seizure, symptoms and sensations, including loss of
consciousness."
"Define the term Seizure Semiology - CORRECT ANSWER=> Clinical manifestations (description)
of the seizure"
"Describe the typical ictal progression for partial and convulsive seizures - CORRECT ANSWER=>
Ictal discharge begins with low-voltage fast activity and becomes slower with higher amplitude"
"Clinical manifestations for Gelastic Seizures - CORRECT ANSWER=> Laughing"
"Clinical manifestations for Dacrystic Seizures - CORRECT ANSWER=> Crying"
"Most common co-morbidity in Gelastic & Dacrystic Seizures - CORRECT ANSWER=>
Hypothalamic Hamartoma"
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,"Name this Seizure:
Seizure begins with tingling sensation or motor movements in the fingers, then affects the hand
and moves on to more proximal areas in the same side of the body with progression to the
contralateral side of the body as the event rosses over the corpus callusom . - CORRECT
ANSWER=> Jacksonian Epilepsy or Jacksonian March"
"Define Todd's Paralysis - CORRECT ANSWER=> 1. Seizure followed by temporary paralysis
2. Paralysis may be partial or complete but usually occurs on just one side of the body (Speech
& vision can be involved)
3. Duration: 30 min -36 hours, Avg. 15 hours"
"Jacksonian March
a. Generalized Seizure
b. Primarily Focal, Secondary Generalized
c. Complex Partial Seizure
d. Simple Partial Seizure - CORRECT ANSWER=> Simple Partial Seizure"
"Hypsarrythmia
a. Complex Partial Seizure
b. Hypnogogic Hypersynchrony
c. Infantile Spasms
d. Tonic Clonic Seizures - CORRECT ANSWER=> Infantile Spasms"
"Hypsarrhythmia
a. Lennox Gastaut
b. Rasmussens Encephalitis
c. Juvenile Myoclonic Epilepsy
d. West Syndrome - CORRECT ANSWER=> West Syndrome"
"Abdominal Epilepsy (Stomach pain)
a. Frontal Lobe
b. Temporal Lobe
c. Parietal Lobe
d. Occipital Lobe - CORRECT ANSWER=> Temporal Lobe"
"Atonic Seizures
a. Olfactory Aura
b. Drop Attacks
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,c. Infantile Seizures
d. Epilepstic Syndrome - CORRECT ANSWER=> Drop Attacks"
"Atonic Seizures
a. Affective Epilepsy
b. Ataxic Epilepsy
c. Akinetic Seizures
d. Aphasic Seizures - CORRECT ANSWER=> Akinetic Seizures"
"Treatment for intractable Atonic Seizures - CORRECT ANSWER=> Corpus Callosotomy"
"Intractable Epilepsy:
a. Febrile Seizures
b. Paraneoplastic Neurologic Syndrome
c. Lennox Gaustox Syndrome
d. Benign Rolandic Epilepsy - CORRECT ANSWER=> Lennox Gaustox Syndrome"
"Intractable Epilepsy:
a. Complex Partial
b. Absence
c. Jacksonian
d. Infantile Spasms - CORRECT ANSWER=> Infantile Spasms"
"Seizure involving visual hallucination of unformed images (flashing lights, color)
a. Frontal Lobe
b. Temporal Lobe
c. Parietal Lobe
d. Occipital Lobe - CORRECT ANSWER=> Occipital Lobe"
"Seizure involving bilateral tonic posturing
a. Frontal Lobe
b. Temporal Lobe
c. Parietal Lobe
d. Occipital Lobe - CORRECT ANSWER=> Frontal Lobe (posterior frontal)"
"Jacksonian March originating in left hand and fingers
a. Onset in left temporal lobe (T3)
b. Onset in right temporal lobe (T4)
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, c. Onset in left frontal lobe (C3)
d. Onset in right frontal lobe (C4) - CORRECT ANSWER=> Onset in right frontal lobe (C4)"
"Dysgeusia
a. Memory
b. Taste
c. Déjà vu
Smell - CORRECT ANSWER=> Taste"
"Seizure or aura involves dysgeusia
a. Globus Pallidus
b. Amydala
c. Insula
d. Hippocampus - CORRECT ANSWER=> Insula"
"Seizure or aura involves formed images or hallucinations
a. Globus Pallidus
b. Amydala
c. Insula
d. Amygdala/Hippocampus - CORRECT ANSWER=> Amygdala/Hippocampus"
"Seizure or aura involves formed images or hallucinations
a. Posterior Temporal Lobe
b. Anterior Temporal Lobe
c. Occipital Lobe
d. Frontal Lobe - CORRECT ANSWER=> Posterior Temporal Lobe"
"Seizure or aura involves tingling sensation of right hand/arm
a. anterior Parietal Lobe - Right
b. Anterior Parietal Lobe - Left
c. Posterior Frontal Lobe - Right
d. Posterior Frontal Lobe - Left - CORRECT ANSWER=> Anterior Parietal Lobe - Left"
"Seizure or aura involves right eye deviation and head deviation with posturing
a. Anterior Temporal Lobe - Left
b. Anterior Parietal Lobe - Left
c. Posterior Frontal Lobe - RIght
d. Posterior Frontal Lobe - Left - CORRECT ANSWER=> Posterior Frontal Lobe - Left"
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