Seizure

Etiology

• Genetic
• Structural
• Metabolic
• Unknown/cryptogenic

Classification

• Focal onset
  • Preserved or impaired awareness
  • Motor or nonmotor onset
    • Motor onset
      • Automatisms
      • Atonic
      • Clonic
      • Epileptic spasms
      • Hyperkinetic
      • Myoclonic
      • Tonic
    • Non-motor onset
      • Autonomic
      • Behaviour arrest
      • Cognitiv
      • Emotional
      • Sensory
  • Focal to bilateral tonic-clonic (previously known as secondarily generalized)
• Generalized onset
  • Motor
    • Tonic-clonic
    • Clonic
    • Tonic
    • Myoclonic
    • Myoclonic-tonic-clonic
    • Myoclonic-atonic
    • Atonic
    • Epileptic spasms
  • Non-motor (absence)
    • Typical
    • Atypical
    • Myoclonic
    • Eyelid myoclonia
• Unknown onset
  • Motor
    • Tonic-clonic
    • Epileptic spasms
  • Non-motor
    • Behaviour arrest
• Unclassified