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Symptoms associated with Harlequin syndrome are more likely to appear under the following conditions: vigorous exercise, warm environments and intense emotional situations. Since one side of the body sweats and flushes appropriately to the condition, the other side of the body will have an absence of such symptoms. [3]
Absence seizures are also known to occur to patients with porphyria and can be triggered by stress or other porphyrin-inducing factors. Childhood Absence Epilepsy. Childhood absence epilepsy (CAE) is a type of idiopathic epilepsy characterized by its non-convulsive, generalized nature and a genetic origin influenced by multiple factors [20]
PNES episodes can be difficult to distinguish from epileptic seizures without the use of long-term video EEG monitoring.Some characteristics which may distinguish PNES from epileptic seizures include gradual onset, out-of-phase limb movement (in which left and right extremities jerk asynchronously or in opposite directions, as opposed to rhythmically and simultaneously as in epileptic seizures ...
Symptoms may include shaking, loss of consciousness, and loss of bladder control. [2] They may or may not be caused by either physiological or psychological conditions. [2] Physiological causes include fainting, sleep disorders, and heart arrhythmias. [2] [3] Psychological causes are known as psychogenic non-epileptic seizures. [3]
Jeavons syndrome is a type of epilepsy.It is one of the most distinctive reflex syndromes of idiopathic generalized epilepsy characterized by the triad of eyelid myoclonia with and without absences, eye-closure-induced seizures, EEG paroxysms, or both, and photosensitivity.
Temporal lobe epilepsy is the most common type of focal onset epilepsy among adults. [1] Seizure symptoms and behavior distinguish seizures arising from the mesial (medial) temporal lobe from seizures arising from the lateral (neocortical) temporal lobe. [2] Memory and psychiatric comorbidities may occur.
B symptoms are so called because Ann Arbor staging of lymphomas includes both a number (I–IV) and a letter (A or B). [1] "A" indicates the absence of systemic symptoms, while "B" indicates their presence. B symptoms include: Fever greater than 38 °C.
Mass anxiety hysteria "consists of episodes of acute anxiety, occurring mainly in schoolchildren. Prior tension is absent and the rapid spread is by visual contact." [9] Mass motor hysteria "consists of abnormalities in motor behaviour. It occurs in any age group and prior tension is present. Initial cases can be identified and the spread is ...