Jump to content
Main menu
Main menu
move to sidebar
hide
Navigation
Main page
Recent changes
Random page
Help about MediaWiki
Special pages
Niidae Wiki
Search
Search
Appearance
Create account
Log in
Personal tools
Create account
Log in
Pages for logged out editors
learn more
Contributions
Talk
Editing
Epilepsy
(section)
Page
Discussion
English
Read
Edit
View history
Tools
Tools
move to sidebar
hide
Actions
Read
Edit
View history
General
What links here
Related changes
Page information
Appearance
move to sidebar
hide
Warning:
You are not logged in. Your IP address will be publicly visible if you make any edits. If you
log in
or
create an account
, your edits will be attributed to your username, along with other benefits.
Anti-spam check. Do
not
fill this in!
===Postictal state=== After the active portion of a seizure (the ictal state) there is typically a period of recovery during which there is confusion, referred to as the [[postictal state]], before a normal [[level of consciousness]] returns,<ref name="EB06" /> lasting minutes to days.<ref name="Pottkämper2020">{{Cite journal |last1=Pottkämper |first1=Julia C. M. |last2=Hofmeijer |first2=Jeannette |last3=van Waarde |first3=Jeroen A. |last4=van Putten |first4=Michel J. A. M. |year=2020 |title=The postictal state-What do we know? |journal=Epilepsia |volume=61 |issue=6 |pages=1045–1061 |doi=10.1111/epi.16519 |issn=1528-1167 |pmc=7317965 |pmid=32396219}}</ref><ref name="Post2010">{{cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=yJQQzPTcbYIC&pg=PA445 |title=A clinical guide to epileptic syndromes and their treatment based on the ILAE classifications and practice parameter guidelines |vauthors=Panayiotopoulos CP |publisher=Springer |year=2010 |isbn=978-1-84628-644-5 |edition=Rev. 2nd |location=London |page=445}}</ref> This period is marked by confusion, [[headache]], [[fatigue]], or speech and motor disturbances. Some may experience [[Todd's paresis|Todd's paralysis]], a transient focal weakness.<ref name="Larner2010">{{cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=mY-6eweiQm8C&pg=PA348 |title=A dictionary of neurological signs |vauthors=Larner AJ |publisher=Springer |year=2010 |isbn=978-1-4419-7095-4 |edition=3rd |location=New York |page=348}}</ref> Postictal psychosis occurs in approximately 2% of individuals with epilepsy, particularly after clusters of generalized tonic–clonic seizures.<ref>{{Cite journal |last1=Clancy |first1=Maurice J. |last2=Clarke |first2=Mary C. |last3=Connor |first3=Dearbhla J. |last4=Cannon |first4=Mary |last5=Cotter |first5=David R. |date=2014-03-13 |title=The prevalence of psychosis in epilepsy; a systematic review and meta-analysis |journal=BMC Psychiatry |language=en |volume=14 |issue=1 |pages=75 |doi=10.1186/1471-244X-14-75 |doi-access=free |issn=1471-244X |pmc=3995617 |pmid=24625201}}</ref><ref name="Post20102">{{cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=yJQQzPTcbYIC&pg=PA445 |title=A clinical guide to epileptic syndromes and their treatment based on the ILAE classifications and practice parameter guidelines |vauthors=Panayiotopoulos CP |publisher=Springer |year=2010 |isbn=978-1-84628-644-5 |edition=Rev. 2nd |location=London |page=445}}</ref>
Summary:
Please note that all contributions to Niidae Wiki may be edited, altered, or removed by other contributors. If you do not want your writing to be edited mercilessly, then do not submit it here.
You are also promising us that you wrote this yourself, or copied it from a public domain or similar free resource (see
Encyclopedia:Copyrights
for details).
Do not submit copyrighted work without permission!
Cancel
Editing help
(opens in new window)
Search
Search
Editing
Epilepsy
(section)
Add topic