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Generalized Occurrence Seizures
The classical absence seizures are a type of generalized seizure age of onset is typically childhood or juvenile age so school age or teenagers years. Clonic seizures are probably one of the rarest types of generalized onset seizures they can be seen in some of those sort of symptomatic generalized epilepsy syndromes and I've seen them also as provoked seizures in the context of some types of drug use. The big one to talk about there is epileptic spasms and epileptic spasm is sort of a broader term which does include the spasms which we see in children with West syndrome for example which are infantile spasms but we use the term epilepticSpasms because they can occur at any