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focal seizure
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Noun1.focal seizure - transitory disturbance in motor or sensory function resulting from abnormal cortical activity
ictus, raptus, seizure - a sudden occurrence (or recurrence) of a disease; "he suffered an epileptic seizure"
cortical epilepsy, focal epilepsy - epilepsy in which the attacks begins with an isolated disturbance of cerebral function (as a twitching of a limb or an illusory sensation or a mental disturbance)
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Focal seizures, also called partial seizures, happen in just one part of the brain.
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Fourteen chapters cover optimal use of the EEG and brain imaging in diagnosis and management, principles of therapy, neonatal seizures and syndromes, encephalopathies, severe neorcortical epileptic syndromes, benign focal seizures, idiopathic generalized epilepsies, familial focal epilepsies, symptomatic and probably symptomatic focal epilepsies, reflex seizures and reflex epilepsies, and a pharmacopoeia of prophylactic antiepileptic drugs.
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To the Editor: A 38-year-old, HIV-seropositive Nigerian man sought treatment with an 8-month history of severe parietal headache, impaired memory, fatigue, paresthesia of the left arm, and left-sided focal seizures.
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