You arrive at the scene shortly after a 7-year-old girl experienced a seizure. According to the child's mother, she was sitting at the dinner table and then suddenly stopped speaking and started blinking her eyes very rapidly. The episode lasted less than 1 minute, after which the child's condition rapidly improved. This clinical presentation is consistent with a(n) _____________ seizure.

A) absence
B) tonic-clonic
C) simple partial
D) complex partial


Answer: A) absence

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