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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
The cutting out of the area of the brain that causes the seizures. The most common example of this type of surgery is the temporal lobectomy in which part of the temporal lobe of the brain is removed. The goal of this type of surgery for epilepsy is most often to stop the seizures completely.
- 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
