The document discusses parietal lobe epilepsy, a rare type of epilepsy affecting around 5% of patients. It can be caused by head trauma, birth difficulties, stroke, or tumors. Seizures originating in the parietal lobe can cause sensory and visual sensations like numbness, tingling, heat, or pain that may march from the face down the arm and leg. The parietal lobe is involved with touch, language, and mathematical skills.

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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