Epilepsy types

rare but severe childhood-onset epilepsy

Human disease

set of brief unconscious behaviors

severe epilepsy syndrome with infantile spasms, hypsarrhythmia and mental retardation

a rare childhood neurological syndrome characterized by seizures and progressive loss of speech typically in a child with previous age-appropriate development

rare inflammatory neurological disease

mitochondrial disease

epilepsy characterized by seizures triggered by visual stimuli that form patterns in space or time, such as flashing lights

common form of epilepsy that may appear to be related to a psychiatric problem or a sleep disorder

Human disease

Human disease

neonatoal period electroclinical syndrome that is characterized by tonic spasms and partial seizures

epilepsy syndrome that is characterised by generalised seizures with no apparent cause which arise from independent foci or epileptic circuits that involve the whole brain

medical condition

type of rare, inherited, severe, progressive myoclonic epilepsy

the most common epilepsy syndrome in childhood which usually subsides with age

form of acquired epilepsy

an explosive-onset, potentially fatal acute epileptic encephalopathy that develops in previously healthy children and adolescents following the onset of a non-specific febrile illness

adolescence-adult electroclinical syndrome that is characterized by brief, involuntary twitching of a muscle or a group of muscles (myoclonus) early in the morning with onset between 12 and 18 years

childhood electroclinical syndrome characterized by the occurrence of typical absence seizures, starting between the age of four and ten years

human disease

Human disease

frontal lobe epilepsy that is characterized by autosomal dominant inheritance with childhood onset of clusters of brief nocturnal motor seizures with hyperkinetic or tonic manifestations

Classifications of epileptic seizures

Epilepsy exacerbated during certain phases of the menstrual cycle

rare inherited human disease