These involve a loss of consciousness and muscle spasms. Focal seizures: Affecting just one side of the brain, simple focal seizures cause subtle symptoms such as a strange taste or smell ...

One type of seizure is called a focal onset seizure. This kind happens when the burst of electrical activity starts on one side of the brain. If your child is awake and aware of what's happening ...

Focal seizures: These seizures start in one area of the brain, leading to either simple focal seizures (no loss of awareness) or complex focal seizures (with loss of awareness). Generalised ...

During this time the frequency of the accompanying focal and tonic–clonic seizures varied from only a few simple focal motor and sensory seizures daily and a few complex focal seizures per week ...

The work highlights the importance of video-EEG in the correct evaluation of such patients, who might otherwise be misdiagnosed with focal epilepsy. Usui and co-workers used video-EEG in the ...