Abstract:Suggestion for a new, patientoriented epilepsy classification" Abstract The recent proposal by the ILAE Task Force for Epilepsy Classification is a multiaxial, syndrome-oriented approach. Epilepsy syndromes -at least as defined by the ILAE Task Forcegroup patients according to multiple, usually poorly defined parameters. As a result, these syndromes frequently show significant overlap and may change with patient age. We propose a five-dimensional and patient-oriented approach to epilepsy classification. This a… Show more
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