Generalized epilepsy—seizure types: absence, myoclonic, tonic, clonic, tonic-clonic and atonic
Idiopathic (genetic causes)
Childhood absence epilepsy, juvenile myoclonic epilepsy, epilepsy with grand-mal seizures on awakening, others
Symptomatic (cause known) or cryptogenic (cause unknown)
West syndrome, Lennox-Gastaut syndrome, others
Partial epilepsy—seizure types: simple partial, complex partial and secondarily generalized tonic-clonic seizures
Idiopathic (genetic causes)
Benign epilepsy of childhood with centrotemporal spikes (“Rolandic” epilepsy), others
Symptomatic (cause known) or cryptogenic (cause unknown)
Temporal lobe epilepsy, frontal lobe epilepsy, others