A 7-Year-Old Child Is Brought to Your Clinic by Her

A 7-year-old child is brought to your clinic by her mother. The mother states that her daughter is doing poorly in school because she has some kind of "ADD" (attention deficit disorder) . You ask the mother what makes her think the child has ADD. The mother tells you that both at home and at school her daughter will just zone out for several seconds and lick her lips. She states it happens at least four to six times an hour. She says this has been happening for about a year. After several seconds of lip-licking her daughter seems normal again. She states her daughter has been generally healthy with just normal childhood colds and ear infections. The patient's parents are both healthy and no other family members have had these symptoms. What type of seizure disorder is she most likely to have?

A) Generalized tonic-clonic seizure
B) Generalized absence seizure
C) Simple partial seizure (Jacksonian)
D) Complex partial seizure