User:Colin/Epilepsies

• Electroclinical syndromes
  • Neonatal period
    • Benign familial neonatal epilepsy (BFNE)
    • Early myoclonic encephalopathy (EME)
    • Ohtahara syndrome
  • Infancy
    • Benign familial infantile epilepsy
    • Benign infantile epilepsy
    • Dravet syndrome
    • Epilepsy of infancy with migrating focal seizures
    • Myoclonic encephalopathy in nonprogressive disorders
    • Myoclonic epilepsy in infancy (MEI)
    • West syndrome
  • Childhood
    • Autosomal-dominant nocturnal frontal lobe epilepsy (ADNFLE)
    • Benign epilepsy with centrotemporal spikes (BECTS)
    • Childhood absence epilepsy (CAE)
    • Epilepsy with myoclonic absences
    • Epilepsy with myoclonic atonic (previously astatic) seizures
    • Epileptic encephalopathy with continuous spike-and-wave during sleep (CSWS)
    • Febrile seizures plus (FS+) (can start in infancy)
    • Landau-Kleffner syndrome (LKS)
    • Late onset childhood occipital epilepsy (Gastaut type)
    • Lennox-Gastaut syndrome
    • Panayiotopoulos syndrome
  • Adolescence – Adult
    • Autosomal dominant epilepsy with auditory features (ADEAF)
    • Epilepsy with generalized tonic–clonic seizures alone
    • Juvenile absence epilepsy (JAE)
    • Juvenile myoclonic epilepsy (JME)
    • Progressive myoclonus epilepsies (PME)
    • Other familial temporal lobe epilepsies
  • Less specific age relationship
    • Familial focal epilepsy with variable foci (childhood to adult)
    • Reflex epilepsies
• Distinctive constellations
  • Gelastic seizures with hypothalamic hamartoma
  • Hemiconvulsion–hemiplegia–epilepsy
  • Mesial temporal lobe epilepsy with hippocampal sclerosis (MTLE with HS)
  • Rasmussen syndrome
  • Epilepsies that do not fit into any of these diagnostic categories can be distinguished first on the basis of the presence or absence of a known structural or metabolic condition (presumed cause) and then on the basis of the primary mode of seizure onset (generalized vs. focal)
• Epilepsies attributed to and organized by structural-metabolic causes
  • Malformations of cortical development (hemimegalencephaly, heterotopias, etc.)
  • Neurocutaneous syndromes (tuberous sclerosis complex, Sturge-Weber, etc.)
  • Angioma
  • Infection
  • Perinatal insults
  • Stroke
  • Trauma
  • Tumour
  • Etc.
• Epilepsies of unknown cause
• Conditions with epileptic seizures that are traditionally not diagnosed as a form of epilepsy per se
  • Benign neonatal seizures (BNS)
  • Febrile seizures (FS)