What Are the Symptoms of Temporal Lobe Seizure Disorder?
In temporal lobe seizures, the abnormal electrical activity of the brain that occurs during a seizure is confined to one or both of the brain’s temporal lobes, which stretch from a person’s temples to a point just in back of the ears on both sides of the brain. These seizures are described as being both “focal” and “complex partial” in nature. Focal describes the limited area within the brain to which the abnormal electrical activity is confined. Complex partial indicates both the limited spread of the abnormal activity at the onset of the seizure, and that while a person does not fully lose consciousness during the seizure, he does lose awareness of his surroundings as it is happening, and he does not remember what happened afterwards.
