<unk>  <unk>  is a clinical syndrome in which a person suffers repeated late<unk><unk>  seizures (PTS), seizures that result from<unk>  brain injury (TBI), or brain damage caused by physical trauma. <unk>  is estimated to be responsible for 5% of all cases of epilepsy. According to another estimate, 20% of cases of symptomatic epilepsy in the general population are<unk> .
A person who has a seizure or seizures due to trauma does not necessarily have<unk> , which is a form of epilepsy and is a chronic condition. However, the terms PTS and<unk>  may be used interchangeably in medical literature. Medical articles usually define<unk>  as "one or more unprovoked seizures occurring after head trauma", but more recently the definition of all types of epilepsy has been narrowed to include only conditions in which more than one unprovoked seizure occur.<unk>  may be caused by several biochemical processes that occur in the brain after trauma, including excitotoxicity and damage to brain tissues by free radicals. The likelihood that a person will develop<unk> , which may occur years after the physical trauma that causes it, is influenced by the severity of the injury.
As with other forms of epilepsy, seizures may be generalized or partial. In the time period shortly after head trauma, seizures are commonly generalized, while partial seizures increase in prevalence with increasing time after the injury.
Post-traumatic epilepsy
Jacksonian seizure
Progressive myoclonic epilepsy
Transient ischemic attack
Epilepsy eeg
Epilepsia partialis continua
Transient ischemic attack risk factors
Watershed stroke