adrenocorticotropin hormone

autosomal dominant cortical myoclonus and epilepsy

autosomal dominant nocturnal frontal lobe epilepsy

anti-epileptic drug

absence status epilepticus

benign childhood seizure susceptibility syndrome

childhood absence epilepsy

coeliac disease

Committee on Quality Improvement, Subcommittee on Febrile Seizures, of the American Academy of Pediatrics

Child Health and Education Study

central nervous system

childhood occipital epilepsy

corticotropin-releasing hormone

convulsive status epilepticus

cerebrospinal fluid

continuous spikes and waves during slow-wave sleep

computed tomography

centrotemporal spikes

drug–drug interaction

dysembryoplastic neuroepithelial tumours

electrocardiography/electrocardiogram

epilepsy with continuous spikes and waves during slow-wave sleep

electroencephalography/electroencephalogram

epilepsy with generalised tonic-clonic seizures on awakening

eyelid myoclonia with absences (Jeavons syndrome)

epilepsy with myoclonic astatic seizures (Doose syndrome)

electromyography

extreme somatosensory-evoked spikes

electrical status epilepticus during slow-wave sleep

familial adult myoclonic epilepsy

¹⁸F fluoro-deoxyglucose

functional magnetic resonance imaging

fixation-off sensitivity

febrile seizures

febrile seizures plus

gamma-aminobutyric acid

generalised epilepsy with febrile seizures plus

gluten-free diet

Gastaut-type idiopathic childhood occipital epilepsy

gonadotrophin-releasing hormone

generalised spike and wave discharge

generalised tonic clonic seizures

juvenile absence epilepsy

juvenile myoclonic epilepsy (Janz syndrome)

hippocampal sclerosis

intractable childhood epilepsy with generalised tonic-clonic seizures

idiopathic childhood occipital epilepsy

idiopathic generalised epilepsy

International League Against Epilepsy

idiopathic photosensitive occipital lobe epilepsy

intermittent photic stimulation

lateral familial temporal lobe epilepsy

leucine-rich, glioma inactivated 1

epilepsy with myoclonic absences

magnetoencephalography

mitochondrial encephalomyopathy, lactic acidosis, and stroke-like episodes

Mesial familial temporal lobe epilepsy

10-hydroxy-10,11-dihydro-5H-dibenzazepine-5-carboxamide

magnetic source imaging

magnetic resonance imaging

magnetic resonance spectroscopy

magnetic resonance spectroscopic imaging

mesial temporal lobe epilepsy

mesial temporal lobe epilepsy with hippocampal sclerosis

N-acetyl aspartate

reduced nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide

National Institute for Clinical Excellence

N-methyl-D-aspartate

non-rapid eye movement

oro-pharyngo-laryngeal

occipital seizures precipitated by photic stimuli

positron emission tomography

perioral myoclonia with absences

psychogenic nonepileptic seizure

photoparoxysmal responses

Panayiotopoulos syndrome

Quality Standards and the Therapeutic and Technology Assessment Subcommittee of the American Academy of Neurology and the American Epilepsy Society

randomised clinical trial

rapid eye movement

Rolandic seizures

Standard and New Antiepileptic Drugs Project

perioral region of the primary somatosensory cortex

supplementary sensorimotor area

single photon emission computed tomography

synaptic vesicle protein 2A

spike–wave index

therapeutic drug monitoring

temporal lobe epilepsy

uridine diphosphate glucuronosyltransferase

visual evoked response

video game-induced seizures

vagal nerve stimulation