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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
An unwanted effect caused by a drug, especially on a tissue or organ system other than the effect sought by taking the medication. Any medication can cause side effects. Some side effects can happen at the start of taking antiepileptic drugs, while the body is adjusting to them and may lessen or disappear completely over time (called Short-Term Side Effects). More troublesome side effects can happen when certain antiepileptic drugs are taken for a long time (called Long-Term Side Effects).
