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Over 40 Different Types Of Seizures - Revised

Sun, 03/25/2007 - 03:04

It has been said repeatedly that there are over 40 different types of seizures with more or less only the most 'popular' listed. Let's see if we can locate the ones that aren't. These types of seizures affect someone and I feel need to be noted. I'm curious to see how many can be located. Anyone interested in helping me find them, please list what you find here along with their description. Thank you! Take care and have a good day! -Spiz This thread is a revision of the first one in order to make changes and additions.

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Over 40 Types of Seizures...

Submitted by spiz on Mon, 2007-06-04 - 02:49
Over 40 Types of Seizures...

Seizures AND syndromes

Submitted by cgarcia4039 on Sun, 2019-03-03 - 04:10
I did the math and if you combine types of seizures AND syndromes there are 47. However when you consider that different syndromes can present with multiple types of seizures (these would cause overlap) than there or only 28 types of seizures.

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