Key references: Epilepsy classification

  • Berg AT, Berkovic SF, Brodie MJ, Buchhalter J, Cross JH, Boas W, et al. Revised terminology and concepts for organization of seizures and epilepsies: report of the ILAE Commission on Classification and Terminology, 2005-2009. Epilepsia 2010;51(4):676–85. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20196795
  • Fisher RS, Acevedo C, Arzimanoglou A, Bogacz A, Cross JH, Elger CE, et al. ILAE official report: a practical clinical definition of epilepsy. Epilepsia 2014;55(4):475–82. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24730690
  • Fisher RS, Cross JH, D'Souza C, French JA, Haut SR, Higurashi N, et al. Instruction manual for the ILAE 2017 operational classification of seizure types. Epilepsia 2017;58(4):531–42. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28276064
  • Lawn N, Chan J, Lee J, Dunne J. Is the first seizure epilepsy--and when? Epilepsia 2015;56(9):1425–31. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26222507
  • Scheffer IE, Berkovic S, Capovilla G, Connolly MB, French J, Guilhoto L, et al. ILAE classification of the epilepsies: Position paper of the ILAE Commission for Classification and Terminology. Epilepsia 2017;58(4):512–21. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28276062