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Seizure Types

Classification is based on the international classification from 1981; More recent terms suggested by the ILAE (International League Against Epilepsy) task Force.

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

Generalized 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