Symptomatic epilepsy

Symptomatic epilepsy is calleda disease that appears due to damage to the cerebral cortex. Such damage can happen due to injury, stroke, cysts, tumors and so on. The clinical picture, which has symptomatic epilepsy, is characterized by focal seizures. The type of seizures depends on which part of the brain is affected. In the event that the MRI did not reveal a lesion of the brain, it is likely that the person has a long-symptomatic epilepsy.

Symptomatic focal epilepsy hassimple and complex attacks. In simple cases, there is no disturbance of consciousness, but with complex it is greatly distorted. It should be noted that seizures can begin at any age.

Frontal symptomatic epilepsy has the following seizures:

• opercular attacks. They are associated with chewing, smacking, salivating, eye-starting. Often the patient is not able to notice these seizures on his own;
• motor attacks. They are associated with the contraction of various muscles (face, legs, arms and so on);
• Attacks associated with additional motor cortex are expressed in sudden exertion of the extremities. Also, the patient during a seizure can strongly press them to the body;
• Adverse seizures are associated with the turns of the head.

Focal attack in some cases lasts only a second, but sometimes it is prolonged and for several minutes. It is not excluded that he will develop into a generalized seizure.

Temporal symptomatic epilepsy causes the following abnormalities:

• The patient suffers from simple auditory hallucinations. Most often he hears a squeak in his ear, noise and so on. Often people are tortured by an incomprehensible whistle;
• a person may be haunted by taste and olfactory hallucinations. Most often the patients are stung by the smell of something burnt or gasoline;
• under illusions is a distorted perception of reality. Most often symptomatic epilepsy leads to the fact that patients cease to adequately perceive the size of objects;
• epileptics torments deja vu. That is, it seems to them that everything that has happened has already happened a long time ago;
• often there is nausea, increased sweating, abdominal pain and so on;
• depersonalization, as well as derealization;
• patients can become sleepy, sluggish, depressed;
• Obsessive thoughts can be very strong. Often they are delusional.

Symptomatic epilepsy is the cause of the following seizures:

• The head is spinning, but the person ceases to orient in space;
• the look becomes frozen. Often a person stops himself on the spot and ceases to move at least somehow;
• some parts of the body may become numb.

Occipital symptomatic epilepsy is associated withsimple visual hallucinations or with the inability to focus on individual subjects. With her, there is a twitching of the eyeballs, frequent blinking and so on.

Secondary-generalized seizures, as a rule, appear only when the focus of excitation due to a focal attack could spread to the entire brain.

In general, the attacks that causesymptomatic epilepsy, frequent. If the disease is not treated, then the frequency of these attacks will soon increase. Damage to the cognitive functions of the patient may begin.

Symptomatic epilepsy in children may beginfor different reasons. Most often, it is caused by hypoxia or congenital brain damage. The factors accompanying the onset of the disease include the suffered head injuries, various infectious diseases that affected the general condition of the body, problems with internal organs.