There is temporal lobe epilepsy (which is the most common), frontal lobe epilepsy, parietal lobe epilepsy, and occipital lobe epilepsy. however, seizures are catagorized into two catagories: focal seizures and generalized seizures.
Epilepsy is itself a medical term. Epilepsy has many forms, so there are many individual types of epilepsy. Epilepsy is defined as the tendency to have recurring seizures. A seizure is not epilpesy. It is a symptom of epilepsy.
Epilepsy, or seizure.
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My friend has epilepsy, she had a seizure today at the carnival. my sister-in-law has epilepsy and she had a seizure while she was at the mall shopping my sister-in-law were out taking a walk along the beach her in her binki when she fell down and started to have a seizure on the beach
During an epileptic seizure a person can have convulsions. There are different types of seizures, not all involve convulsions.
The immediate complication of epilepsy is simply the risk of getting a seizure :-)
Epilepsy is the tendency to have recurring seizures. If someone has one seizure and then never has one again, which can happen, they would not be said to have epilepsy. So it is people that keep having seizures that would be said to have epilepsy.
An absence seizure or a petit mal.
Well, you get seizures. I guess that is the "effect". That is what happens when something triggers the epilepsy, you get a seizure.
She had epilepsy and died from a seizure.
I have epilepsy and i abously hate it.