What Is a Jacksonian Seizure?

Jacksonian epilepsy

Jackson epilepsy

Basic overview of Jackson epilepsy

Jacksonian epilepsy

When there is cortical damage in the motor area of the cerebral cortex, it can cause seizures in the corresponding part of the contralateral body. In severe cases, the seizures can spread to the ipsilateral and contralateral sides, causing systemic convulsions, called Jackson epilepsy.

Jackson epilepsy was named in honor of the discoverer of the disease, British neurologist John Hughlings Jackson.

The abnormal discharge in the brain spreads from the local area to the adjacent cortex. For example, the discharge spreads along the motor area of the cerebral cortex. The clinical manifestation is that the convulsions gradually develop from thumb-wrist-forearm-elbow-shoulder-mouth angle-face, also known as Jackson seizure. .

Jackson epilepsy symptoms

During the onset of Jackson epilepsy (sheep epilepsy) symptoms, the brain nerves discharge, causing a short circuit in part of the nerve center, which affects a part of the body's movement-type epilepsy (sheep epilepsy), which may be manifested as dancing, generally affecting the upper limb twist first. Motion, gradually expanding into the whole body.

Jackson epilepsy classification

. Jackson epilepsy. Motor-induced Jackson epilepsy.

The main symptoms are sudden toe convulsions and numbness when walking on the lower extremities. When they gradually approach the proximal end along the right torso and right upper extremities to the end of the fingers, they feel that the lower right and upper extremities fall off and convulsions develop to the face. , Both eyes stared to the right.

. Jackson epilepsy was secondary to Jackson epilepsy after cord blood transplantation.

It belongs to secondary Jackson epilepsy after the operation. During the attack, the thumb twitch of the right hand extended to the whole right upper limb twitch, then the twitch of the right limb, followed by the whole body twitch, and finally there may be unconsciousness and no significant change in limb function.