behavioral seizures

I teach middle school students with emotional/behavioral disorders in a public school.  Recently, a mother of one of my students reported that a neurologist stated that he has behavioral seizures which account for his consistent oppositional-defiant and dangerous behaviors.  Do you have any information regarding this?  It seems apparent to me that the function of his behavior is control, escape/avoidance, and revenge at times.
Thanks

[Kevin Kennedy, Ph.D.]

Ask the boy's mother if the boy has had an electroencephalogram that indicated seizure activity. If the behaviors you are witnessing are clearly reactions to particular environmental circumstances, it is most likely that seizure activity is not the primary problem - it rarely is with children who are seriously oppositional and defiant. Now, having said that, anti-seizure medications (e.g., Tegretol, Depakote), can be quite helpful in treating very serious angry and volatile behavior,