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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 ...
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.
In children, the most common cause is a stroke of the ventral pons. [9]Unlike persistent vegetative state, in which the upper portions of the brain are damaged and the lower portions are spared, locked-in syndrome is essentially the opposite, caused by damage to specific portions of the lower brain and brainstem, with no damage to the upper brain.
Paralysis; Paramyotonia congenita; Paresthesia; Paresis; Parkinson('s) disease; Paraneoplastic diseases; Paroxysmal attacks; Parry–Romberg syndrome; Pelizaeus–Merzbacher disease; Periodic paralyses; Peripheral neuropathy; Pervasive developmental disorders; Phantom limb / Phantom pain; Photic sneeze reflex; Phytanic acid storage disease ...
The condition is characterized by the sudden, typically temporary weakness or paralysis of the muscles on one side of the face and can cause profound change to one’s appearance.
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.
Sheppard called her obstetrician, who “very quickly said it sounds like Bell’s palsy” — a condition also known as idiopathic facial paralysis, which affects about 40,000 people in the U.S ...
Bristol Palin Details Facial Paralysis, Says Doctors Believe It’s a ‘Case of Bell’s Palsy’ “The last time I got Bell's Palsy was 17 years ago when I was thinking about moving back up ...