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Epilepsy Glossary
Click on a term in the list below to see an explanation of what it means.
- Absence Seizure
- Anticonvulsant (antiepileptic drug)
- Atonic Seizure
- Aura
- Automatisms
- Clonic Seizure
- Complex Partial Seizure
- Epileptic Focus
- Epileptologist
- Fit
- Frontal Lobe Epilepsy
- Generalized Seizure
- Grand Mal Seizure
- Hemispherectomy
- Ictal
- Idiopathic Epilepsy
- Interictal
- Intractable Epilepsy
- Lab analysis
- Lennox-Gastaut syndrome
- Lobectomy
- Long-Term Side Effects
- Meningitis
- MRI (Magnetic Resonance Imaging)
- Myoclonic Seizure
- Myoclonus
- Neurologist
- Neuron
- Neurotransmitter
- Occipital Lobe Epilepsy
- Parietal Lobe Epilepsy
- Partial Seizure
- PET (Positron Emission Tomography) scan
- Placebo
- Postictal
- Pseudoseizures
- Seizure
- Short-Term Side Effects
- Side Effects
- Simple Partial Seizure
- SPECT (Single Photon Emission Computerized Tomography)
- Spike
- Symptomatic Epilepsy
- Synapse
- Telemetry
- Temporal Lobe Epilepsy
- Therapeutic Range
- Tonic Seizure
- Tonic-Clonic Seizure
- Vagal Stimulator
- West Syndrome
