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I doubt they are too in depth. A general understanding of what the big medications treat should be sufficient. For example, I would try to have a decent grasp of dopamine replacement therapy for Parkinson’s disease and what it helps/doesn’t help. Spasticity is another topic that where PT interacts closely with pharmacology.

Compared to complex seizures, absence seizures have an abrupt ending and no post-ictal phase.

Here are a couple links with short explanations of different types of seizures:
https://magazine.medlineplus.gov/article/understanding-different-kinds-of-seizures
-https://www.aafp.org/pubs/afp/issues/2015/0115/p114.html#:~:text=Absence%20seizures%20can%20be%20differentiated,to%20be%20the%20main%20cause.