Epileptic seizures presenting as motor phenomena without concomitant conscious change may be confused with one of the paroxysmal movement disorders. Conversely, the attack of paroxysmal movement disorders may be thought to be epileptic due to a number of factors, including its sudden, unpredictable, and transient nature, its response to anticonvulsants, and the premonitory sensations preceding ...

day, nonspecific warnings, frequent occurrence out of sleep, brief seizures less than one minute, stereotypical attacks for individual patients sudden onset and ending, minimal or no postictal confusion, prominent complex motor automatisms, including sexual automatisms, complex vocalization, bizarre attacks that appear hysterical, and complex partial status epilepticus. The interpretation of th...