Seizures: Types and Classification
Über den Vortrag
Der Vortrag „Seizures: Types and Classification“ von Roy Strowd, MD ist Bestandteil des Kurses „Seizures and Epilepsy“.
Quiz zum Vortrag
Which statement regarding seizure electrical activity is correct?
- Surface electroencephalography (EEG) will show a clearly identifiable starting point during focal seizures.
- Surface EEG will show the initial starting location of a generalized seizure.
- Focal onset seizures begin in the brainstem and travel outward.
- Generalized seizures usually only involve one hemisphere of the brain.
- Generalized seizures have a defined trajectory of depolarization on surface EEG.
Which of the following can be classified as a focal seizure?
- Secondary generalized seizure
- Absence seizure
- Myoclonic seizure
- Atonic seizure
- Tonic seizure
Which description of a seizure is the most accurate?
- Atonic seizures can result in fall injuries.
- Tonic-clonic seizures typically have an aura.
- Clonic seizures present as transient stiffness.
- Focal seizures always result in altered awareness.
- Todd’s paralysis is characterized by weakness on the same side of the body where the seizure began.
Which statement is true?
- Absence seizures show a “spike and wave” pattern on electroencephalography (EEG).
- A patient experiencing a strange taste or smell is likely having a generalized seizure.
- Jacksonian march refers to characteristic bilateral leg movements that resemble walking.
- Both secondary generalized seizures and tonic-clonic seizures will have an aura.
- Simple focal seizures result in lip-smacking or similar repetitive reflexive behaviors.
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Dozent des Vortrages Seizures: Types and Classification
Roy Strowd, MD
Dr. Roy Strowd is the Assistant Dean of Undergraduate Medical Education at the Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center, in North Carolina, USA.
He obtained his MD from Wake Forest School of Medicine in 2009, and his MEd from Johns Hopkins University in 2021. Currently, he co-directs the Neurofibromatosis and Tuberous Sclerosis Clinics at Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center, and is a researcher for the Adult Brain Tumor Consortium (ABTC) and Alliance for Clinical Trials in Neuro-Oncology.
Due to his achievements, he earned the M. Brownell Anderson Award from the Association of American Medical Colleges.
Within Lecturio, Dr. Strowd teaches courses on Clinical Neurology.
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