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A professor in the middle of a lecture unbuttoned his shirt and rebuttoned it several times in rapid succession, started to sing, and then ran out of the room. He was discovered several hours later sleeping in the rain on a bench in front of the university library. He could not remember his classroom behavior, and he had no idea how he had fallen asleep in the rain. The professor may have experienced:________.

A) a tonic-clonic attack.
B) a generalized seizure.
C) a complex partial seizure.
D) a spike-and-wave discharge.
E) an absence attack.

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Answer:

c. a complex partial seizure.

Step-by-step explanation:

A complex partial seizure -

It is also known as focal impaired awareness seizures and focal onset impaired awareness seizures .

It refers to the type of seizure , which develops in one of lobe of the brain , which affects the person's consciousness , is referred to as a complex partial seizure .

The people suffering from this problem completely loses their consciousness and awareness and faces difficultly in the day to day activities of the life .

Hence , from the given scenario of the question ,

The correct answer is c. a complex partial seizure.

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