- Alternating muscle contract in a rhythmic repetitive jerking motion
- Syncope
- Incontinence
- Biting of the tongue
- Holding breath
Simple partial seizure: - Continuous muscle contraction and stiffness and jerking motion of
the face, neck, and extremities - Deviations of the eyes
- Head turning
Complex partial seizures: - Impaired consciousness
- Blinking
- Staring
- Lip smacking
- Sleepwalking
- Chewing
- Night terrors
- Sucking
Absence seizure: - Brief loss of consciousness
- No or minimal loss of postural tone
- Eye blinking
- Rolling of the eyes
- Drooping eyelid
Atonic: - Loss of posture tone
- Drop-and-fall action
Myoclonic seizure: - Involuntary jerking
- Loss of body tone
- Falling forward
- Flexing the upper chest
- Infantile spasms
- Pallor
Akinetic: - Brief loss of consciousness
- Brief loss of muscle tone
Abrupt jerking: - Contraction of the head and neck
- Cyanosis
- Altered consciousness
- Eye rolling
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