ILAE Official Report: A practical clinical definition of epilepsy

Epilepsia

Volumn 55, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 475-482

  Fisher, Robert S ^a   Acevedo, Carlos ^b   Arzimanoglou, Alexis ^c   Bogacz, Alicia ^d   Cross, J Helen ^e   Elger, Christian E ^f   Engel, Jerome ^g   Forsgren, Lars ^h   French, Jacqueline A ⁱ   Glynn, Mike ^j   Hesdorffer, Dale C ^k   Lee, B I ^l   Mathern, Gary W ^m   Moshé, Solomon L ⁿ   Perucca, Emilio ^o   Scheffer, Ingrid E ^p   Tomson, Torbjörn ^q   Watanabe, Masako ^r   Wiebe, Samuel ^s  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b Past President Chilean League Against Epilepsy   (Chile)

^c LYON NEUROSCIENCE RESEARCH CENTER   (France)

^d UNIVERSIDAD DE LA REPÚBLICA   (Uruguay)

^e GREAT ORMOND STREET HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^f UNIVERSITY OF BONN   (Germany)

^g UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^h UMEÅ UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

ⁱ NEW YORK UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^j Epilepsy Ireland   (Ireland)

^k Taub Institute for Research on Alzheimer's Disease and the Aging Brain and the Gertrude H Sergievsky Center   (United States)

^l Yonsei University College of Medicine   (South Korea)

^m MATTEL CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

ⁿ ALBERT EINSTEIN COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^o UNIVERSITY OF PAVIA   (Italy)

^p UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^q KAROLINSKA INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

^r NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF MENTAL HEALTH   (Japan)

^s UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

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Author keywords

Definition; Epilepsy; Recurrence; Seizure; Unprovoked

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; DISEASE PREDISPOSITION; EPILEPSY; HUMAN; INSURANCE; MESIAL TEMPORAL LOBE EPILEPSY; PHOTOSENSITIVE EPILEPSY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECURRENCE RISK; REFLEX EPILEPSY; REMISSION; SEIZURE; SEIZURE THRESHOLD; SYMPTOMATIC EPILEPSY; TEMPORAL LOBE EPILEPSY; ADULT; ADVISORY COMMITTEE; AGED; BRAIN; CASE REPORT; CHILD; CLASSIFICATION; FEMALE; MALE; MEDICAL SOCIETY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; RESEARCH; SEIZURES; TRENDS; VERY ELDERLY; YOUNG ADULT;

ADULT; ADVISORY COMMITTEES; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BRAIN; CHILD; EPILEPSY; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; RESEARCH REPORT; SEIZURES; SOCIETIES, MEDICAL; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84899493269     PISSN: 00139580     EISSN: 15281167     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/epi.12550     Document Type: Article

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