Across
- 1. Medication that is used to treat epilepsy that Sarah was prescribed
- 5. A seizure that lasts longer than 5 minutes, or having more than 1 seizure within a 5 minutes period, without returning to a normal level of consciousness between episodes
- 7. Seizure with periods of shaking or jerking parts on the body
- 9. Defined as having 2+ unprovoked seizures
- 11. Seizure characterized by successive phases of _ and _ spasm (as in grand mal epilepsy).
- 13. period that begins when a seizure subsides and ends when the patient returns to baseline
- 14. A burst of uncontrolled electrical activity between brain cells that causes temporary abnormalities in muscle tone or movements, sensations or states of awareness.
Down
- 2. A seizure that causes you to blank out or stare into space for a few seconds. They can also be called petit mal seizures.
- 3. Seizure with short jerking in parts of the body.
- 4. Seizure where muscles in the body relax. Also known as drop seizures.
- 6. Seizure where muscles in the body become stiff
- 8. This overfires during a seizure
- 10. Type of seizure that occurs when nerve cells in a part of the brain are involved
- 12. The middle stage of a seizure