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Focal motor seizure
The brain has specific regions that control specific parts of the body. The motor strip of the frontal lobe has foot and leg at top and hand and face down the side. Very useful areas (mouth and hand) have huge area while less useful have less. Involved neurons can seize and produce abnormal twitching just in the specific part of the body they represent. This causes a focal motor seizure.
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What is a focal motor seizure?
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What is the definition or description of: focal motor seizure?
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I have an avm over my primary and secondary motor cortex focal seizures to right upper extremities didn't show on EEG . Why not?
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A 21-year old male asked:
Would a person be mobile and functional (100% functional) during a focal aware / simple partial seizure?
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A 36-year old female asked:
After 2 times of seizure my child EEG report is "slower than normal.Focal spikes (lt partial)are seen.Generalized slow & sharp waves.What does it mean?
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A 20-year old female asked:
I suffer with focal epilepsy and is controlled, but I have small seizures that last 3 days but it only happens every 3 months do you have any idea why?
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A 58-year old female asked:
I have had four focal seizures in a hour and still having aura's afraid I''ll have more I'm exhausted. What should I do?
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A 28-year old female asked:
I had a focal lesion on my head at birth due to some doctors negligence. Can it trigger simple partial seizures now that I am in mid-twenties?
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A 23-year old male asked:
I am on zeptol 200 thrice a day and I haven't had a focal seizure for a month.Can I get back to swimming. At a times I feel sensations in head.no seiz?
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A 23-year old male asked:
What is focal region of increased t2 signal centrally within the pons, without restricted diffusion, that could reflect chronic ischemic change? Im 22 years old and developed seizures in 2021?
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A 62-year old female asked:
Does a focal seizure occur only with obvious brain damage?
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A 33-year old female asked:
Can a 19 month old child with a focal seizure, and is on Trileptal, take Benadryl which contains diphenhydramine?
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A 36-year old female asked:
My 7 month old has focal seizures, axial hypotonia and developmental delays. What could this be? Our neuro isn't sure.
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A female asked:
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A 24-year old female asked:
I take meclizine 25mg twice a day and lamotrigine 100mg twice a day for focal seizures. Have been on lamotrigine for less than a year. Is it ok to drink small amount of alcohol..on a rare basis..like one beer for example?
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A 34-year old female asked:
Five year old had an MRI due to a seizure. Tiny focal area of increased flair signal involving the anterolateral right frontal white matter which is nonspecific however may reflect minimal gliosis... what does that mean? Is it a concern?
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A 34-year old female asked:
My daughter is 9years old she has right focal seizures so doctor prescribed oxetol 300mg morning and sodium 200mg,oxetol 300mg and frisium 5mg at night so today accidentally given oxetol 300mg double should I give give frisium 5mg night or morning?
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A 21-year old female asked:
I think Im having focal seizures. I was diagnosed with psychogenic non-epileptic seizures but none of my symptoms match up. During my seizures Ill doze into space, scream/laugh, and have odd facial twitches. Ill see flashing lights but cant talk?
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A 25-year old female asked:
Can lamotrigine for focal seizures or apri birth control cause weight gain? Ive always been very petite. In the last year and a half, Ive gained to my all time high. Im 55/56 and now weigh 150. Never used to be more than 120. Diet/exercise same?
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A 28-year old female asked:
Was told my focal aware seizures are not seizures but panic attacks. ... dont think thats right. my symptoms are throbbing on one or both sides of my head going down my face with muscle tension along my neck and spinal cord. i get these once a week?
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A 18-year old female asked:
My neurologist weened me off levetiracetam completely now and i'm starting to feel a little weird/weak. i have focal partial epilepsy, woke up from my sleep with a small seizure like episode, probably lasted 5 seconds. is this normal from weening of?
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