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Frequency. 40 per 100,000 people per year [ 2] Status epilepticus ( SE ), or status seizure, is a medical condition consisting of a single seizure lasting more than 5 minutes, or 2 or more seizures within a 5-minute period without the person returning to normal between them. [ 3][ 1] Previous definitions used a 30-minute time limit. [ 2]
Psychogenic non-epileptic seizures ( PNES ), also referred to as pseudoseizures, non-epileptic attack disorder ( NEAD ), functional seizures, or dissociative seizures,[ 2][ 3] are episodes resembling an epileptic seizure but without the characteristic electrical discharges associated with epilepsy. [ 4][ 3] PNES fall under the category of ...
Lennox–Gastaut syndrome ( LGS) is a complex, rare, and severe childhood-onset epilepsy syndrome. It is characterized by multiple and concurrent seizure types including tonic seizure, cognitive dysfunction, and slow spike waves on electroencephalogram (EEG), which are very abnormal. [ 1] Typically, it presents in children aged 3–5 years and ...
v. t. e. Organic personality disorder (OPD) or secondary personality change, is a condition described in the ICD-10 and ICD-11 respectively. It is characterized by a significant personality change featuring abnormal behavior due to an underlying traumatic brain injury or another pathophysiological medical condition affecting the brain.
Epileptic spasms is an uncommon-to-rare epileptic disorder in infants, children and adults. One of the other names of the disorder, West syndrome, is in memory of the English physician, William James West (1793–1848), who first described it in an article published in The Lancet in 1841. [ 2] The original case actually described his own son ...
Generalized epilepsy is a form of epilepsy characterised by generalised seizures with no apparent cause. [1] Generalized seizures, as opposed to focal seizures, are a type of seizure that impairs consciousness and distorts the electrical activity of the whole or a larger portion of the brain (which can be seen, for example, on electroencephalography, EEG).
Delirium or Acute organic brain syndrome is a recently appearing state of mental impairment, as a result of intoxication, drug overdose, infection, pain, and many other physical problems affecting mental status. In medical contexts, "acute" means "of recent onset". As is the case with most acute disease problems, acute organic brain syndrome is ...
344.5 Unspecified monoplegia; 344.6 Cauda equina syndrome; 344.8 Other; 344.9 Unspecified; 345 Epilepsy. 345.0 Generalized nonconvulsive epilepsy; 345.1 Generalized convulsive epilepsy; 345.2 Petit mal status; 345.3 Grand mal status; 345.4 Partial epilepsy, with impairment of consciousness; 345.5 Partial epilepsy, without mention of impairment ...