This over-ventilation may couse an absence or complex partial seizure, which can then be observed by your doctor. Rapid breathing during exercise is rarely assoicted with a seizure. Causes are found in more than half of the children experienceing seizures. Absence seizures and generalized tonic-clonic seizures, occuring particularly at night, are common. The EEG shows generalized slow spike or poly-spike and slow wave abnormalities.
Mental retardation is common and often progressive.
This is a severe seizure type and one that is difficult to control. Pseudo-seizures may be a child's conscious imitation of seizures, a way of coping with stress, or it may be subconsious. Pseudo-seizures often occur in persons who also have true seizures and may be difficult to differentiate from true seizures. There are many different forms of seizures, depending on where in the brain the activity starts and on the direction and rapidity of its spread in the brain. I also hope you understand I am not a doctor or seizure specialist.