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What is Petit Mal Seizure?

The brain's nerve cells (neurons) communicate with one another by firing tiny electric signals. When someone suffers a seizure, the firing pattern of the brain's electric signals suddenly becomes abnormal and unusually intense. This seizure can affect only an isolated area of the brain, or it can involve the whole brain. If the whole brain is involved, the electrical disturbance is called a generalized seizure. The two most common forms of generalized seizures are tonic-clonic seizures (often called grand mal seizures) and absence seizures (also called petit mal seizures). Although both forms of generalized seizures cause the patient to lose consciousness temporarily, only the grand mal form produces symptoms of a true convulsion, in which the person stiffens falls to the ground, with clenching of the teeth and rhythmic muscle contractions that may last two minutes or longer.

Unlike a grand mal seizure, an absence seizure causes a loss of consciousness that is usually 30 seconds or less, and is barely noticeable. Rather than falling down, the person simply stops moving or speaking, stares straight ahead blankly and does not respond to questions. When the seizure ends, the person resumes normal activities without realizing that anything has happened and has no memory of the seizure. Because most patients who suffer from absence seizures are children, a teacher may be the first to notice this problem.

Epilepsy is defined as a brain disorder that causes recurring seizures. Therefore, a child with repeated absence seizures is said to have childhood absence epilepsy or petit mal epilepsy. Although absence epilepsy can begin at any time during childhood, it is most common in children between the ages of 5 and 15 years. Girls have absence epilepsy more often than boys, and in most cases the reason for the seizures is unknown. Although research suggests that genetic (inherited) factors may play some role in the development of absence epilepsy, there is no practical way to use this information to diagnose the disorder or to screen for it.

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