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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
A scan that uses an injection or radioactive tracer to measure brain metabolism and physiological function in an effort to locate the seizure focus. Often part of the evaluation before seizure surgery.
- 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
