| Characterized by myoclonic episodes or sudden jerking movements frequently occurring in a series or upon waking. |
| During a juvenile myoclonic epileptic seizure, the hands, arms or whole body will start jerking, but the person doesn't lose consciousness or awareness. |
| The terms seizure and convulsion include grand mal, petit mal, absence, myoclonic, tonic-clonic, and focal motor seizures and signs. |
| Postmarketing adverse reports include: laryngospasm, dizziness, myoclonic movements and respiratory depression. |
| Cardiac syncope often causes immediate loss of consciousness, tonic stiffening of body and limbs, and often myoclonic jerking. |
| Myoclonic seizures occur in a variety of epileptic syndromes, such as juvenile myoclonic epilepsy syndrome. |
