Seizures (definition)

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Definition: Clinical or subclinical disturbances of cortical function due to a sudden, abnormal, excessive, and disorganized discharge of brain cells. Clinical manifestations include abnormal motor, sensory and psychic phenomena. Recurrent seizures are usually referred to as EPILEPSY or "seizure disorder."

note other specific seizure terms in MeSH; audiogenic or acoustic seizures
See Also Anticonvulsants; Convulsants; Eclampsia; Epilepsy; Kindling, Neurologic

Other names Seizures, Sensory; Seizures, Motor; Seizures, Generalized; Seizures, Focal; Seizures, Convulsive; Jacksonian Seizure; Convulsive Seizures; Convulsions; Tonic Seizure; Somatosensory Seizures; Somatosensory Seizure; Sensory Seizures; Sensory Seizure; Seizures, Tonic Clonic; Seizure, Visual; Seizure, Vestibular; Seizure, Vertiginous; Seizure, Tonic-Clonic; Seizure, Tonic; Seizure, Somatosensory

Substance	Categories	Source
sec-butyl-propylacetamide	Amides Valproic Acid/analogs & derivatives Anticonvulsants Seizures/drug therapy.	Epilepsia. 2012 Jan;53(1):134-46
SeSAME syndrome	Hearing Loss, Sensorineural Intellectual Disability *Seizures.
Adams Nance syndrome	Amino Acid Metabolism, Inborn Errors Cataract Hypertension Microphthalmos Seizures Tachycardia, Paroxysmal.
Baraitser Rodeck Garner syndrome	Cleft Lip Cleft Palate Coloboma Craniosynostoses Intellectual Disability Seizures *Kidney Diseases, Cystic Ear/abnormalities Nose/abnormalities.
Microcephaly sparse hair mental retardation seizures	Alopecia Intellectual Disability Microcephaly Seizures.
Microcephaly seizures mental retardation heart disorders	Abnormalities, Multiple Heart Defects, Congenital Intellectual Disability Microcephaly *Seizures Bone and Bones/abnormalities.
Microcephaly seizures genital hypoplasia	Microcephaly Seizures *Urogenital Abnormalities.
Mental retardation, keratoconus, febrile seizures, and sinoatrial block	Keratoconus Intellectual Disability Seizures Sinoatrial Block.
Muller Barth Menger syndrome	Abnormalities, Multiple Hand Deformities, Congenital Hypertrichosis Seizures *Malformations of Cortical Development.
Hypoparathyroidism-retardation-dysmorphism syndrome	Abnormalities, Multiple Growth Disorders Hypoparathyroidism Intellectual Disability Osteochondrodysplasias Seizures.
Tranebjaerg Svejgaard syndrome	Psoriasis Seizures *Mental Retardation, X-Linked.
X-linked mental retardation Gustavson type	Deafness Optic Atrophy Seizures Mental Retardation, X-Linked.
Warman Mulliken Hayward syndrome	Craniosynostoses Seizures.	Am J Med Genet. 1993;46(4):444-9
Perniola Krajewska Carnevale syndrome	Alopecia Intellectual Disability *Seizures.
Partington X-linked mental retardation syndrome	Ataxia Seizures *Mental Retardation, X-Linked.
Qazi Markouizos syndrome	Abnormalities, Multiple Growth Disorders Intellectual Disability Muscle Hypotonia *Seizures.
Mental retardation, X-linked, syndromic 5	Basal Ganglia Diseases Dandy-Walker Syndrome Seizures Mental Retardation, X-Linked.
Infantile convulsions and paroxysmal choreoathetosis, familial	Seizures Dyskinesias *Epilepsy, Benign Neonatal.
Copper deficiency, familial benign	Hair Diseases Metabolism, Inborn Errors Dermatitis, Seborrheic Seizures Copper/deficiency.

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