1. Partial Seizures (usually 1 hemisphere at onset)
- Simple (consciousness not impaired)
- With Motor Symptoms (Jacksonian, adversive)
- With somatosensory or other special sensory symptoms
- With autonomic symptoms
- With psychic symptoms
- Complex (impaired consciousness)
- Simple partial onset followed by impaired consciousness
- Impaired consciousness at onset
- Secondarily generalized
- Simple partial seizures evolving to generalized tonic-clonic
seizures
- Simple partial seizures evolving to complex partial seizures
then to generalized tonic-clonic seizures
2. Generalized Seizures (involve both hemispheres of the brain
from the onset, consciousness is usually impaired)
- Absence
- Typical
- Atypical
- Myoclonic
- Clonic
- Tonic
- Tonic-clonic
- Atonic
3. Localization-related (Focal Seizures)
- Idiopathic
- Benign focal epilepsy of childhood
- Symptomatic
- Chronic progressive epilepsia partialis continua
- Temporal lobe epilepsy
- Extratemporal
4. Generalized Epilepsy
- Idiopathic
- Benign neonatal convulsions
- Childhood absence
- Juvenile myoclonic
- Other
- Cryptogenic or symptomatic
- West Syndrome (infantile spasms)
- Early myoclonic encephalopathy
- Lennox-Gastaut syndrome
- Progressive myoclonic epilepsy
5. Special Syndromes
6. Unclassified
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