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Abstract
A disorder characterized by recurrent episodes of paroxysmal brain dysfunction due to a sudden, disorderly, and excessive neuronal discharge. Epilepsy classification systems are generally based upon: (1) clinical features of the seizure episodes (e.g., motor seizure), (2) etiology (e.g., post-traumatic), (3) anatomic site of seizure origin (e.g., frontal lobe seizure), (4) tendency to spread to other structures in the brain, and (5) temporal patterns (e.g., nocturnal epilepsy). (From Adams et al., Principles of Neurology, 6th ed, p313)
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- Seizure Disorder
- Epilepsies
- Seizure Disorders
- Aura
- Awakening Epilepsy
- Epilepsy, Cryptogenic
- Auras
- Cryptogenic Epilepsies
- Cryptogenic Epilepsy
- Epilepsies, Cryptogenic
- Epilepsy, Awakening
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Indexed with the subheadings blood, cerebrospinal fluid, chemically induced, classification, complications, congenital, diagnosis, diagnostic imaging, diet therapy, drug therapy, economics, embryology, enzymology, epidemiology, ethnology, etiology, genetics, history, immunology, metabolism, microbiology, mortality, nursing, parasitology, pathology, physiopathology, prevention & control, psychology, radiotherapy, rehabilitation, surgery, therapy, urine, veterinary, virology.
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References
- National Library of Medicine. Epilepsy. Medical Subject Headings (MeSH). 2026. Unique ID D004827. http://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/2026/D004827
- Epilepsy. In: Wikipedia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epilepsy
- Epilepsy. In: Wikidata. https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q41571