Seizure onset presentations

Evidence-based neurology checklist on seizure onset presentations: Focal motor-onset aware seizures Automatisms Atonic Clonic Epileptic spasms Hyperkinetic Myoclonic Tonic Focal to bilateral tonic-clonic seizures Focal motor-onset impaired awareness seizures Generalized motor-onset seizures…

Focal motor-onset aware seizures

  • Automatisms
  • Atonic
  • Clonic
  • Epileptic spasms
  • Hyperkinetic
  • Myoclonic
  • Tonic
  • Focal to bilateral tonic-clonic seizures

Focal motor-onset impaired awareness seizures

Generalized motor-onset seizures

Generalized non-motor onset (absence) seizures

Other seizure onset types

References

  1. Chang RS, Leung CYW, Ho CCA, Yung A. Classifications of seizures and epilepsies, where are we? A brief historical review and update. J Formos Med Assoc 2017; pii: S0929-6646(17)30147-X (Epub ahead of print).
  2. Fisher RS, Cross JH, D'Souza C, et al. Instruction manual for the ILAE 2017 operational classification of seizure types. Epilepsia 2017; 58:531-542.
  3. Chang RS, Leung CYW, Ho CCA, Yung A. Classifications of seizures and epilepsies, where are we? - A brief historical review and update. J Formos Med Assoc 2017; 116:736-741.
  4. Beniczky S, Rubboli G, Covanis A, Sperling MR. Absence-to-bilateral-tonic-clonic seizure: a generalized seizure type. Neurology 2020; 95:e2009-e2015.

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