Comprehensive Epilepsy Center

A Comprehensive Epilepsy Center is an academic department of epilepsy in the United States that meets certain criteria and has certain resources available for the care of the most complicated patients with epilepsy. There is a nationwide organization to which these centers belong, called the National Association of Epilepsy Centers.^[1]

Footnotes

↑ National Association of Epilepsy Centers, a non-profit organization listing more than 60 member centers throughout the United States.

Seizures and epilepsy (G40–G41, 345)

Basics

Treatments

Anticonvulsants
Electroencephalography (diagnosis method)
Epileptologist

Personal issues

Seizure types
Epilepsy types

Focal	Seizures Simple partial Complex partial Gelastic seizure Epilepsy Temporal lobe epilepsy Frontal lobe epilepsy Rolandic epilepsy Nocturnal epilepsy Panayiotopoulos syndrome

Generalised	Tonic-clonic Absence seizure Atonic seizure Automatism Benign familial neonatal epilepsy Lennox-Gastaut Doose syndrome West

Status epilepticus	Epilepsia partialis continua Complex partial status epilepticus

Myoclonic epilepsy	Progressive myoclonus epilepsies Dentatorubral-pallidoluysian atrophy Unverricht-Lundborg disease MERRF syndrome Lafora disease Juvenile myoclonic epilepsy

Non-epileptic seizures	Febrile seizure Psychogenic non-epileptic seizures

Related disorders

Epilepsy
organizations

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