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
- Abrupt onset, may be unprovoked
- Brief duratoin (typically <2min)
- AMS
- Jerking of limbs
- Postictal drowsiness/confusion
- ↑ 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.