Epilepsy syndromes and related conditions 3
| Benign familial neonatal seizures |
| Early myoclonic encephalopathy |
| Ohtahara syndrome |
| a Migrating partial seizures of infancy |
| West syndrome |
| Benign myoclonic epilepsy in infancy |
| Benign familial infantile seizures |
| Benign infantile seizures (nonfamilial) |
| Dravet syndrome |
| Hemiconvulsion-hemiplegia syndrome |
| a Myoclonic status in nonprogressive encephalopathies |
| Benign childhood epilepsy with centrotemporal spikes |
| Early-onset benign childhood occipital epilepsy (Panayiotopoulos type) |
| Late-onset childhood occipital epilepsy (Gastaut type) |
| Epilepsy with myoclonic absences |
| Epilepsy with myoclonic-astatic seizures |
| Lennox-Gastaut syndrome |
| Landau-Kleffner syndrome (LKS) |
| Epilepsy with continuous spike- and-waves during slow-wave sleep (other than LKS) |
| Childhood absence epilepsy |
| Progressive myoclonus epilepsies |
| Idiopathic generalized epilepsies with variable phenotypes |
| Juvenile absence epilepsy |
| Juvenile myoclonic epilepsy |
| Epilepsy with generalized tonic-clonic seizures only |
| Reflex epilepsies |
| Idiopathic photosensitive occipital lobe epilepsy |
| Other visual sensitive epilepsies |
| Primary reading epilepsy |
| Startle epilepsy |
| Autosomal dominant nocturnal frontal lobe epilepsy |
| Familial temporal lobe epilepsies |
| a Generalized epilepsies with febrile seizures plus |
| a Familial focal epilepsy with variable foci |
| Symptomatic (or probably symptomatic) focal epilepsies |
| Limbic epilepsies |
| Mesial temporal lobe epilepsy with hippocampal sclerosis |
| Mesial temporal lobe epilepsy defined by specific etiologies |
| Other types defined by location and etiology |
| Neocortical epilepsies |
| Rasmussen syndrome |
| Other types defined by location and etiology |
| Conditions with epileptic seizures that do not require a diagnosis of epilepsy |
| Benign neonatal seizures |
| Febrile seizures |
| Reflex seizures |
| Alcohol-withdrawal seizures |
| Drug or other chemically induced seizures |
| Immediate and early posttraumatic seizures |
| Single seizures or isolated clusters of seizures |
| Rarely repeated seizures (oligoepilepsy) |
Syndromes in development
From Engel (2001)3 with permission of the author and the editor of Epilepsia
From: Chapter 1, Clinical Aspects of the Diagnosis of Epileptic Seizures and Epileptic Syndromes
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