Epilepsy classification
Editor-In-Chief: C. Michael Gibson, M.S., M.D. [1]; Associate Editor(s)-in-Chief: Fahimeh Shojaei, M.D.
Overview
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
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
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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