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Epilepsy classification

Introduction

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

  1. ↑ 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.

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