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 |