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Seizure Types

Classification is based on the international classification from 1981^[1]; More recent terms suggested by the ILAE (International League Against Epilepsy) task Force . Epilepsia 2015; 56:1515-1523.

Focal seizures

(Older term: partial seizures)

Without impairment in consciousness– (AKA Simple partial seizures)
- With motor signs
- With sensory symptoms
- With autonomic symptoms or signs
- With psychic symptoms (including aura)
With impairment in consciousness - (AKA Complex Partial Seizures--Older terms: temporal lobe or psychomotor seizures)
- Simple partial onset, followed by impairment of consciousness
- With impairment of consciousness at onset
Focal 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 seizures

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

↑ 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.

[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.

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