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Todd's paresis (or postictal paresis/paralysis, "after seizure") is focal weakness in a part or all of the body after a seizure. This weakness typically affects the limbs and is localized to either the left or right side of the body. It usually subsides completely within 48 hours. Todd's paresis may also affect speech, eye position (gaze), or ...
Robert Bentley Todd (9 April 1809 – 30 January 1860) was an Irish-born physician who is best known for describing the condition postictal paralysis in his Lumleian Lectures in 1849 now known as Todd's palsy.
Todd's paresis can also cause anterograde amnesia if the seizure included the bilateral hippocampi, and aphasia if the seizures began in the language-dominant hemisphere. [2] Symptoms typically last about 15 hours, but can continue for 36 hours. [3] Postictal psychosis is a neuropsychiatric sequel to seizures of chronic epilepsy in adults.
Joni Eareckson was born in 1949 in Baltimore, Maryland, the youngest of four daughters, to John and Lindy Eareckson. [4] Joni was named after her father, John Eareckson, so she pronounces her name as "Johnny". [4]
This is known as Todd's paralysis. [3] [13] [19] Motor symptoms: Head turning and eyes moving to one side, with contraction of limbs on one side is a common presentation. [13] Automatisms are also an indicator that a seizure is focal. [3] [5] These are repetitive movements.
Localized weakness, known as Todd's paralysis, may also occur after a focal seizure. It would typically last for seconds to minutes but may rarely last for a day or two.
Todd's paralysis; Todd's syndrome; Togaviridae disease; Tollner–Horst–Manzke syndrome; Tolosa–Hunt syndrome; Toluene antenatal infection; Tomaculous neuropathy; Tome–Brune–Fardeau syndrome; Tongue neoplasm; Toni–Debre–Fanconi maladie; Toni–Fanconi syndrome; TORCH syndrome; Toriello–Carey syndrome; Toriello–Lacassie–Droste ...
Ascending paralysis; B. Babinski–Nageotte syndrome; C. Cauda equina syndrome; Cerebral Palsy Games; ... Todd's paresis; W. Walk Again Project; Worster-Drought syndrome