Sunday 03.14.2010 Complex Partial Seizures: During a complex partial seizure (also known as temporal lobe epilepsy or psychomotor epilepsy), although your eyes may stay open and you may move around, you will probably be unconscious. If you can speak, your words are unlikely to make sense. You will be unable to control how you move or what you say and do.

A complex partial seizure may begin with a blank stare and a loss of consciousness and continue through a number of events, some of which may include mumbling and other movements of the mouth; mechanical, repetitive activities; wandering around or going through seemingly routine tasks; talking or crying out; disturbed reactions, as if you were having a nightmare; and various agitated motions all just part of your seizure.

When you emerge from a complex partial seizure, you will have no memory of what has taken place.

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