Partial Seizures (seizures with focal onset)

1. ) Simple partial seizures (consciousness not impaired)

   1. ) With motor signs

   2. ) With somatosensory or special-sensory symptoms

   3. ) With autonomic symptoms or signs

   4. ) With psychic symptoms (disturbance of higher cerebral functions)

2. ) Complex partial seizures (consciousness impaired)

   1. ) Starting as simple partial seizures

      1. ) Without automatisms

      2. ) With automatisms

      3. ) With impairment of consciousness at onset without automatisms (impairment of consciousness only)

3. ) Partial seizures evolving into secondarily generalized seizures

Generalized Seizures

1. ) Absence seizures and atypical absence seizures (may have the following components):

   • Mild clonic, atonic, tonic, or autonomic activities, or automatic behavior

2. ) Myoclonic seizures

3. ) Clonic seizures

4. ) Tonic seizures

5. ) Tonic-clonic seizures

6. ) Atonic seizures

Unclassified Epileptic Seizures