Epilepsy classification
Editor-In-Chief: C. Michael Gibson, M.S., M.D. [1]; Associate Editor(s)-in-Chief: Fahimeh Shojaei, M.D.
Overview
Epilepsy may be classified according to type of onset into focal, generalized and unknown. Each of these groups can be further divided into motor and non-motor subgroups.
Classification
- Epilepsy may be classified according to type of onset into:[1]
| Type of onset | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Focal | secondary generalized | Generalized | Unknown | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Motor | Non-motor | Motor | Non-motor | Motor | Non-motor | Unclassified | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| •Automatisms • Atonic • Clonic • Epileptic spasm • Hyperkinetic • Myoclonic • Tonic | • Autonomic • Behavior arrest • Cognitive • Emotional • Sensory | • Tonic-clonic • Clonic • Tonic • Myoclonic • Myoclonic-tonic-clonic • Myoclonic-atonic • Atonia • Epileptic spasm | • Typical • Atypical • Myoclonic • Eyelid myocloni | • Tonic-clonic • Epileptic • Spasm | • Behavior arrest | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
References
- ↑ Fisher, Robert S.; Cross, J. Helen; D’Souza, Carol; French, Jacqueline A.; Haut, Sheryl R.; Higurashi, Norimichi; Hirsch, Edouard; Jansen, Floor E.; Lagae, Lieven; Moshé, Solomon L.; Peltola, Jukka; Roulet Perez, Eliane; Scheffer, Ingrid E.; Schulze-Bonhage, Andreas; Somerville, Ernest; Sperling, Michael; Yacubian, Elza Márcia; Zuberi, Sameer M. (2017). “Instruction manual for the ILAE 2017 operational classification of seizure types”. Epilepsia. 58 (4): 531–542. doi:10.1111/epi.13671. ISSN 0013-9580.
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