Jacksonian Seizure

Jacksonian Seizure
Medical Dictionary
Definition of medical terminology for Jacksonian Seizure.

Alternate Names : Focal seizure, Jacksonian seizure, Seizure - partial (focal), Temporal lobe seizure
Definition ...

A Jacksonian seizure was first described by the English neurologist Dr.

Focal seizure; Jacksonian seizure; Seizure - partial (focal); Temporal lobe seizure
Symptoms
Patients with focal seizures can have any of the symptoms below, depending on where in the brain the seizure starts.

Simple partial with no loss of consciousness (previously called Jacksonian seizures).
In this type of seizure the abnormal electrical impulse originates in the motor cortex of the brain, which controls muscular movements.

In jacksonian seizures, focal motor symptoms begin in one hand, then march up the arm. Other focal seizures affect the face first, then spread to an arm and sometimes a leg.

Jacksonian seizures are extremely varied and may involve, for example, apparently purposeful movements such as turning the head, eye movements, smacking the lips, mouth movements, drooling, rhythmic muscle contractions in a part of the body, ...

They would finally affect the leg on the same side of her body, then stop. He went on to describe this form of epilepsy associated with localized convulsive seizures, now known as Jacksonian epilepsy or Jacksonian seizures.

See also: Seizure, Seizures, Epilepsy, Symptom, Partial seizure