Patient's question:
When we were young, we called one disease "epilepsy," but later we learned that this disease is also known as epilepsy. A son of a colleague of my mother has this disease. We have never seen him have an attack, but I heard that he had a generalized seizure yesterday, almost biting off his tongue. It felt quite frightening. I don't know what the symptoms are for a generalized seizure.Doctor's answer:
During an episode, there may be varying degrees of impaired consciousness. It is characterized by sudden cessation of movement, fixed gaze, unresponsiveness to, without falling, and no change in facial expression. Some patients may exhibit automatisms, which are involuntary and unconscious movements such as lip licking, smacking lips, chewing, swallowing,, rubbing the face, clapping hands, aimless walking, and talking to oneself, which cannot be recalled after the episode. Most of these originate from the medial temporal lobe or limbic system, but they can also originate from the frontal lobe.