In<unk> , the hallmark symptoms include both visual and oculomotor. Symptoms may happen spontaneously, or be due to a lesion or injured area of the<unk>  lobe. For visual symptoms, these may include simple to complex hallucinations, blindness, visions, and palinopsia (seeing a visual stimulus after it has been removed from the visual field). These are usually brief, but can be experienced from 1–3 minutes. Oculomotor symptoms include tonic deviation of the eyes, nystagmus (rapid, involuntary movement of the eyes) and repetitive fluttering or closing of the eyelids. In children, they may also have nausea and vomiting during the episode as well. Episodes in total for children usually last less than 10 minutes, and mainly occur at night. Triggers can include turning off lights, and going between dark to light or light to dark areas. It is not uncommon to experience postictal headache, extremely similar to migraines after these seizures.<unk>  can cause many seizures per day and often in multiple clusters. The seizures may also spread to other areas in the brain. Spreading of the seizures can move to the anterior regions, causing symptoms also from the frontal, temporal, and parietal lobes, and secondary hemi convulsions or convulsions. There are also subtypes to<unk>  lobe seizures caused by the spread within the brain and where exactly the seizure is occurring in the<unk>  lobe, causing variation of symptoms. 1. Primary visual cortex- can cause visual hallucinations and visions, or blindness in a certain area or completely 2. Extra-striate cortex- more complex hallucinations such as people, places, or animals 3. Parieto-occipital junction- nystagmus and other eye and eyelid movements 4. Calcarine fissure- inferior tends to spread to the temporal lobe and superior can spread to the parietal, fronto-parietal operculum, or frontal lobes Subtypes Gastaut syndrome This type primarily affects vision and may cause partial vision loss, a sensation of flashing lights, multi-colored spots and shapes, hallucinations (rare), jerking on one side of the body, and headaches during or after the seizure. Panayiotopoulos syndrome The main seizure type of this classification of<unk>  is known as autonomic due to the symptoms experienced such as turning pale, feeling ill, and usually vomiting, dilation of pupils, sweating, drooling, and watering of the eyes. Children may become unresponsive with their head fixed to one side, which can last up to 20–30 minutes. Jerking of the limbs on one or both sides of the body is also very common. Most will sleep after the event. Interestingly, over two-thirds of these seizures occur during sleep, whether it be at night or during a daytime nap, but usually are not very frequent- typically one or two every few months.
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