Template:Seizure types

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Seizure Types

Classification is based on the international classification from 1981[1]

Focal seizures

(Older term: partial seizures)

  • Simple partial seizure– consciousness is not impaired
    • With motor signs
    • With sensory symptoms
    • With autonomic symptoms or signs
    • With psychic symptoms
  • Complex partial seizure - Consciousness is impaired (Older terms: temporal lobe or psychomotor seizures)
    • Simple partial onset, followed by impairment of consciousness
    • With impairment of consciousness at onset
  • Partial seizures evolving to secondarily generalized seizures
    • Simple partial seizures evolving to generalized seizures
    • Complex partial seizures evolving to generalized seizures
    • Simple partial seizures evolving to complex partial seizures evolving to generalized seizures

Generalised epilepsy

  • Absence seizures (Older term: petit mal)
    • Typical absence seizures
    • Atypical absence seizures
  • Myoclonic seizure
  • Clonic seizures
  • Tonic seizures
  • Tonic–clonic seizures (Older term: grand mal)
  • Atonic seizures

Unclassified epileptic seizures

  1. Proposal for revised clinical and electroencephalographic classification of epileptic seizures. From the Commission on Classification and Terminology of the International League Against Epilepsy. Epilepsia 1981; 22:489.