Epilepsy Classification

Question 1

What are two important descriptors for the onset and duration of seizures?

Answer 1

Sudden and transient

Question 2

Provoked seizures have an _____ precipitant

Answer 2

immediate

Question 3

Two or more unprovoked seizures is known as

Answer 3

epilepsy

Question 4

Epilepsy has a ____ age peak with spikes coming very ___ and very __ in life

Answer 4

bimodal; early; late

Question 5

1 in _ people will have epilepsy at some point in their life

Answer 5

25

Question 6

EEGs measure the summed excitatory and inhibitory input into ____ cells

Answer 6

pyramidal

Question 7

Absence seizures stop what?

Answer 7

Eye blinking

Question 8

____ seizures have quick body jerks

Answer 8

Myoclonic

Question 9

These seizures start with a cry, then you stiffen, then you shake

Answer 9

tonic-clonic

Question 10

You can also just shake ( ___ ) or just stiffen ( ___ )

Answer 10

clonic; tonic

Question 11

Atonic seizures make you lose ____ and you typically ___

Answer 11

tone; fall

Question 12

Generalized seizures generally affect __ sides of the body

Answer 12

both (bilateral)

Question 13

Generalized seizures can actually be ____ seizures with rapid secondary generalization

Answer 13

focal

Question 14

Focal seizures can be with or without _____ of impairment

Answer 14

awareness

Question 15

Occipital lobe seizures can present with positive or negative ___ signs

Answer 15

visual

Question 16

Parietal seizures can present with _____ (side) _______ signs

Answer 16

contralateral sensory

Question 17

Temporal lobe seizure symptoms

Answer 17

AAU m
A- Auras
A- Arrest of movement
U- unresponsive 
M- motor autonisms

Question 18

Frontal lobe seizure symptoms

Answer 18

Motor strip- clonic shaking of contralateral limbs
Anterior to motor strip- hyperactive motor movements
Brocas- Brocas aphasia
F- Fronto-polar- arrest of activity