Different seizure disorders can affect people. Not all seizures are dangerous or fatal, but signs of an emergency may not be obvious when one sees someone experiencing a seizure. Not everyone knows that seizures can impact your level ofconsciousness, and that dangerous effects can occur due to epilepsy in some cases. Seizures often impact neurons in different brain regions, impacting emotions and behaviors as well as types and severities of seizures.
Generalized epilepsy is the most common epileptic condition; it may occur due to inheritance or a genetic mutation. It causes generalized seizures, which impact both the right and left hemispheres of the brain; seizures that can occur with this condition include tonic-clonic, tonic, and myoclonic.
In focal epilepsy, individuals are impacted by focal seizures, which affect a particular, specific region of the brain. It can also occur by genetics, but is often connected to an abnormality in the affected brain region. Seizures that can occur with this condition are varied, and are grouped into those that keep consciousness and those that cause the person to lose consciousness.
Cryptogenic epilepsy arises when a person suffers from sufficient amounts of seizures, but the causes of their seizures are undetermined. They may show a variety of seizures, from focal to generalized, and may have unusual types that are difficult to understand and properly diagnose.