A patient reports feeling numbness and tingling of the left arm before experiencing a seizure. The nurse determines that this history is consistent with what type of seizure?

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The initial symptoms of a focal seizure involve clinical manifestations that are localized to a particular part of the body or brain. Symptoms of an absence seizure are staring and a brief loss of consciousness. In an atonic seizure,the patient loses muscle tone and (typically)falls to the ground. Myoclonic seizures are characterized by a sudden jerk of the body or extremities.

A Patient Reports Feeling Numbness and Tingling of the Left