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Assignment:

Theoretical criteria for health, then, would have to be set for virtually every year of life. Thus, one would have to say that it is normal for a man of 80 to be breathless after climbing two flights of stairs, while such breathlessness would be distinctly abnormal in an agile child of 10 years of age. Moreover, an individual's general level of physical activity significantly alters his ability to respond to the ordinary demands of daily life.

1. How long should antiepileptic treatment be continued for a stroke patient who has the first seizure within the first 24 hours of the stroke?

2. For how long should antiepileptic drugs be given to patients having their first seizure within the first week of their cerebrovascular stroke?

3. What are the causes of epilepsy with a normal electroencephalogram (EEG), other than metabolic causes? Could epilepsy due to CNS causes be associated with a normal EEG? Could epilepsy due to the gradual withdrawal of an antiepileptic drug occur as much as 1 year later?

4. What are uncinate fits?

5. Are epileptic fits occurring strictly during sleep pathognomonic for frontal or temporal lobe epilepsy or any other epileptic syndrome?

6. Despite childhood somnambulism often disappearing later in life, could its first presentation after puberty on a nearly daily basis, raise the possibility of frontal lobe epilepsy or other organic pathology? Would an electroencephalogram (EEG) or polysomnography confirm this?

7. Could masticatory automatisms follow a generalized tonic-clonic fit? If so, would these or would these not be considered part of the same fit?

8. Is it common for epileptic patients to have postictal vomiting? If so, how often does this occur?

9. In temporal lobe epilepsy, what is meant by 'cephalic aura' and how does this manifest itself?

10. What is the difference between pseudoseizures and pseudopseudoseizures?