What are "partial" seizures?

What are "partial" seizures?

Charles Ribak, Ph.D. (Professor of Anatomy and Neurobiology, UC Irvine School of Medicine) gives expert video advice on: What causes a seizure?; If I had a seizure, do I have epilepsy?; Are people with epilepsy more creative? and more...

Partial seizures are seizures that arise from a very localized region of the brain. These are the opposite types of seizures than the generalized seizures which involves the normal activity throughout the entire brain. So, partial seizure, then, arises from one particular portion of the brain. It's also called a focal or local. Now, there are two types of partial seizures; simple partial seizures and the complex partial seizures.