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What is a "myoclonic" seizure?

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What is a "myoclonic" seizure?

A myoclonic seizure is a type of uncontrolled movement involving the same kind of clonic movement, this muscular clonic movement. We don't know whether it's an involuntary movement, almost like a nervous tic, or whether it's an actual seizure that is underlying this behavioral movement but the myoclonic seizure is not categorized as part of a type of epilepsy persay.

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