2.  Epilepsy can effect anyone at any age
 Can effect both men and women, mostly women
 The parietal lobe epilepsy is the most rare type of epilepsy effecting
about 5% of all epilepsy patients
 It may be a result of head trauma, birth difficulties, stroke, or
tumor, though the cause is unknown in 20% of patients

3.  The parietal lobe is located just behind the frontal lobe and it plays important roles
in touch
 In the language dominant side of the brain (the left side for most right-handed
individuals), the parietal lobe is also involved with language, planned movements
such as writing, as well as mathematical skills
 seizures coming from the parietal lobe can involve both sensory and visual
sensations
 Seizure time varies, from a few seconds in some patients to a few minutes in others

4.  most common type of seizure in parietal epilepsies
 Patients with these types of seizures describe feeling physical sensations of
numbness and tingling, heat, pressure, electricity and/or pain
 Rarely, a patient will describe a sensation in the genitalia, occasionally leading to
orgasm
 Some patients describe a typical “Jacksonian march”, in which the sensation
“marches” in a predictable pattern from the face to the hand up the arm and down
the leg

5. • http://epilepsy.med.nyu.edu/epilepsy/types-epilepsy/partietal-lobe-
epilepsy
• http://professionals.epilepsy.com/page/parietal_lobe_epilepsies.htm
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