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| General aspects of epilepsies | |
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| What is epilepsy? | |
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| Definitions | |
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| Making the correct diagnosis in epilepsies | |
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| The ILAE classification of epileptic seizures and epileptic syndromes | |
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| Epidemiology of epilepsies | |
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| Epileptic seizures and their classification | |
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| The formal definition of epileptic seizures | |
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| Classification of epileptic seizures | |
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| Generalised epileptic seizures | |
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| Focal epileptic seizures | |
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| Reflex epileptic seizures | |
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| Status epilepticus | |
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| Generalised tonic-clonic status epilepticus | |
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| Generalised tonic status epilepticus | |
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| Generalised myoclonic status epilepticus | |
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| Absence status epilepticus | |
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| Focal status epilepticus | |
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| Treatment of status epilepticus | |
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| Imitators of epileptic seizures | |
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| Main types of epileptic seizures and their imitators | |
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| Syncopal attacks imitating epileptic seizures | |
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| Psychogenic NEPEs imitating epileptic seizures | |
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| Non-epileptic paroxysmal movement disorders imitating epileptic seizures | |
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| Non-epileptic severe amnesic and confusional attacks imitating epileptic seizures | |
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| NEPEs occurring during sleep and sleep disorders | |
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| Subjective non-epileptic paroxysmal symptoms imitating simple focal seizures | |
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| Migraine, migralepsy, basilar migraine with EEG occipital paroxysms and diagnostic errors | |
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| Epileptic syndromes and their classification | |
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| ILAE definitions of epileptic syndromes 1989 | |
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| ILAE classification of epileptic syndromes | |
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| Syndromic classification of the new diagnostic ILAE scheme | |
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| EEG and brain imaging | |
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| EEG in the diagnosis and management of epilepsies | |
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| Brain imaging in the diagnosis and management of epilepsies | |
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| Principles of therapy in the epilepsies | |
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| AED prophylactic treatment | |
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| Surgery for epilepsies | |
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| Vagus (or vagal) nerve stimulation | |
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| Ketogenic diet | |
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| Corticosteroids in the treatment of childhood epilepsies | |
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| Neonatal epileptic seizures and neonatal epileptic syndromes | |
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| Neonatal epileptic seizures | |
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| Neonatal epileptic syndromes | |
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| Benign familial neonatal seizures | |
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| Benign neonatal seizures (non-familial) | |
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| Early myoclonic encephalopathy | |
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| Ohtahara syndrome | |
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| Idiopathic epileptic seizures and syndromes in infancy | |
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| Febrile seizures | |
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| Epilepsy with febrile seizures plus | |
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| Benign infantile seizures | |
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| Myoclonic epilepsy in infancy | |
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| Epileptic encephalopathies in infancy and early childhood | |
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| West syndrome | |
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| Dravet syndrome | |
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| Lennox-Gastaut syndrome | |
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| Landau-Kleffner syndrome | |
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| Epilepsy with continuous spikes and waves during slow-wave sleep | |
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| Myoclonic encephalopathy in non-progressive disorders | |
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| Atypical benign partial epilepsy of childhood | |
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| Hypothalamic (gelastic) epilepsy | |
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| Severe neocortical epileptic syndromes in infancy and childhood | |
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| Kozhevnikov-Rasmussen syndrome | |
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| Migrating focal seizures of infancy | |
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| Hemiconvulsion-hemiplegia epilepsy | |
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| Benign childhood focal seizures and related epileptic syndromes | |
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| Benign childhood epilepsy with centrotemporal spikes | |
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| Panayiotopoulos syndrome | |
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| Idiopathic childhood occipital epilepsy of Gastaut | |
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| Other phenotypes of BCSSS | |
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| Benign childhood seizure susceptibility syndrome: a unified concept of BCSSS | |
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| Benign (isolated) focal seizures of adolescence | |
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| Management of benign childhood focal seizures | |
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| Idiopathic generalised epilepsies | |
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| Syndromes of IGE recognised by the ILAE | |
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| Epilepsy with myoclonic-astatic seizures | |
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| Childhood absence epilepsy | |
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| Epilepsy with myoclonic absences | |
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| Juvenile absence epilepsy | |
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| Juvenile myoclonic epilepsy | |
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| Epilepsy with GTCSs only | |
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| Other probable syndromes of IGE to consider | |
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| Autosomal dominant cortical tremor, myoclonus and epilepsy | |
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| AED treatment of IGEs | |
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| Familial (autosomal dominant) focal epilepsies | |
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| Autosomal dominant nocturnal frontal lobe epilepsy | |
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| Familial (autosomal dominant) temporal lobe epilepsy | |
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| Familial mesial temporal lobe epilepsy | |
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| Familial lateral temporal lobe epilepsy | |
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| Familial focal epilepsy with variable foci | |
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| Other possible familial (autosomal dominant) focal epilepsies not yet recognised | |
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| Symptomatic and cryptogenic (probably symptomatic) focal epilepsies | |
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| Temporal lobe epilepsies | |
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| Mesial TLE with hippocampal sclerosis | |
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| MTLE defin | |