The visual aura associated with migraine can take several forms including the appearance of arcs of light flashes, greying out the visual field and blanking out. Migraine and epilepsy co-exist in some cases. Hyper-cyanotic spells are associated with excessively deep breathing, rapid breathing, panic, crying and also clonic-tonic seizures episode. Infants with Tetralogy of Fallot mostly have these spells, but children with pulmonary hypertension, ventriculoseptal defect, pulmonary stenosis and other congenital heart problems also have these spells. After reaching this point the child breathes in or go into syncope with transient loss of consciousness. The child then becomes blue with deep cyanosis. A child begins crying and stops breathing – which appears to be silent crying. This condition is common in pre-school children. Treatment for pseudoseizures include medications for the treatment of underlying cause such as anxiety, depression and also behaviour modification therapy and psychological counselling. In this condition, subconscious stress causes the patient to have seizure-like episodes.įor the diagnosis of non-epileptic seizures, Video EEG is very helpful because expected EEG changes during the episode of seizure are usually absent in case of non-epileptic seizure. These are also known as pseudoseizures or psychogenic seizures or non-epileptic attacks. This type of seizures resembles epileptic seizures, but they are not real seizures as there is no clinical evidence or electrophysiological correlation with epilepsy. These are literally very difficult epilepsy imitators (seizure mimics) – mostly psychological in nature. Non-epileptic seizures or Pseudo seizures An experienced paediatric neurologist takes into consideration a typical clinical presentation and setting for syncope or fainting before diagnosing epilepsy – which may include any of the following: A seizure provoked by syncope is called convulsive syncope. Seizure mimics – syncope can cause seizures like symptoms and confusional state – which many people consider as seizures. The following is a list of such conditions that imitate or mimic epilepsy or seizures’ like symptoms: These conditions are often misdiagnosed as epilepsy. In reality, these symptoms mimic seizures. These conditions can cause loss of awareness, sensations, abnormal body movements. Seizure mimics or imitators of epilepsy are those conditions that are not caused actually by the disturbances in the electrical activity of the brain.
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