| SIMPLE PARTIAL | | surgery used to remove part or all of one of the lobes to remove the origin of seizures |
| HEMISPHERECTOMY | | (abbreviation) for positron emission tomography |
| EEG | | a device used like a pacemaker for the brain to help control seizures (abbreviation) |
| PET SCAN | | a seizure that only effects only one area of the brain without loss of consciousness |
| MRI | | (abbreviation) for single photo emission computed tomography |
| BIOFEEDBACK | | seizures caused by flashing lights |
| MYOCLONIC | | temporal lobe epilepsy produces these kind of seizures |
| ANTI EPILEPTIC DRUGS | | a severe seizure disorder affecting a child under age two and often associated with developmental delay |
| SPECT SCAN | | another name for atonic seizures |
| PETIT MAL | | name of an animal used to aid someone with epilepsy |
| EPILEPSY | | a condition where two seizures have taken place that are not a result of any other medical findings |
| COMPLEX PARTIAL | | stress related seizures or/and fake seizures |
| SEIZURE | | a machine used to trace brain waves (abbreviation) |
| KETOGENIC DIET | | diet used to control seizures in children |
| LOBECTOMY | | another name for generalized tonic clonic seizures |
| CATAMENIAL EPILEPSY | | another name for absence seizures |
| STATUS EPILEPTICUS | | a sectional view of the body constructed by computer tomography (abbreviation) |
| DROP ATTACKS | | muscle jerks |
| CAT SCAN | | a procedure in which magnetic resonance imaging is used |
| PSEUDO SEIZURES | | drugs taken for epilepsy are called? |
| VNS | | a protein hormone of the anterior lobe of the pituitary gland that stimulates the adrenal cortex (abbreviation) |
| SEIZURE ALERT AND ASSISTANCE DOGS | | a short circuit in the brain |
| ACTH | | brain surgery removing one hemisphere of the brain |
| LENNOX GASTAUT SYNDROME | | nonstop seizure or seizures |
| PHOTOSENSITIVE | | epilepsy that effects women during menstruation |
| INFANTILE SPASMS | | the technique of making unconscious or voluntary bodily processes (as heart beat or brain waves) perceptible to the senses (as by the use of an oscilloscope) in order to manipulate them by conscious mental control |
| GRAND MAL | | an epileptic syndrome of young children that is marked by tonic,atonic,and myoclonic seizures and by atypical absence seizures that is associated with mental retardation |
