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- The postictal state is the altered state of consciousness after an epileptic seizure. It usually lasts between 5 and 30 minutes, but sometimes longer...
- contractions. After these series of contractions, there is an extended postictal state where the person is unresponsive and commonly sleeping with loud...
- seizures). Most seizures last less than two minutes and are followed by a postictal period of confusion, fatigue, or other symptoms. A seizure lasting longer...
- Focal seizures are seizures that originate within brain networks limited to one hemisphere of the brain. In most cases, each seizure type has a consistent...
- Todd's paresis (or postictal paresis/paralysis, "after seizure") is focal weakness in a part or all of the body after a seizure. This weakness typically...
- appears to be centrally mediated collapse in the postictal state—a process sometimes termed early postictal neurovegetative breakdown. Central respiratory...
- generally not followed by a period of lethargy (i.e. without a notable postictal state). Absence seizures are most common in children. They affect both...
- period of recovery during which there is confusion, referred to as the postictal state, before a normal level of consciousness returns, lasting minutes...
- around ****" and that she was asleep in Scotland. The article Recurrent Postictal Depression with Cotard Delusion (2005) describes the case of a 14-year-old...
- in response to the second of two closely spaced psychological stimuli Postictal state, the period following a series of epileptic seizures during which...