Variability of Seizure Classification

Abstract

One senior neurologist (JBB) from the Department of Neurology and Pediatrics, West Virginia University, Morgantown, W.Va., USA, and three neurology residents from the University of Oklahoma, Harvard Unitersity, and W.Va. University reviewed descriptions of seizures transcribed from medical records and classified them according to the International League Against Epilepsy (ILAE) Classification system, 1981.

Keywords

• classifying seizure types
• secondary generalization
• explicit criteria