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QuestionChoice
Atonic seizures occur suddenly with the muslces losing tone and becoming limp.
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e
Atonic
QuestionChoice
Absence seizures are short and abrupt. They can happen multiple times a day, and patients report memory loss during their seizures.
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c
Absence
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This is the commonest form of primary generalized epilepsy. It starts in childhood and features early-morning jerks.
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d
Juvenile myoclonic epilepsy
QuestionChoice
Focal onset seizures start in one region of the brain. In this case, the sensory symptoms suggest they start in the temporal lobe (the most common lobe for focal onset seizures). Focal seizures may spread to the whole brain, becoming a secondary generalized seizure. However, this patient does not describe this.
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Focal onset
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These seizures happen with sudden onset as electrical dischargers spread over the whole brain. Patients experience continuous muscle spasm (tonic phase), rhythmic jerking (clonic phase), and drowsiness/ confusion/ pain/ headache afterwards (post-ictal phase).
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b
Primary generalized
Concept
Chapter
2693
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Epilepsy
Topic
141
Neurology
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A patient with epilepsy describes their seizures. They can happen at any time of day. During their seizures, they have visual hallucinations, are often scared, and experience deja vu.

Which type of seizure is this?
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