• Hans Lüders, Shahram Amina, Christopher Bailey, Christoph Baumgartner, Selim Benbadis, Adriana Bermeo, Maria Carreño, Michael Devereaux, Beate Diehl, Matthew Eccher, Jonathan Edwards, Philip Fastenau, Guadalupe Fernandez Baca-Vaca, Jaime Godoy, Hajo Hamer, Seung Bong Hong, Akio Ikeda, Philippe Kahane, Kitti Kaiboriboon, Giridhar Kalamangalam, David Lardizabal, Samden Lhatoo, Jürgen Lüders, Jayanti Mani, Carlos Mayor, Tomas Mesa Latorre, Jonathan Miller, Harold H Morris, Soheyl Noachtar, Cormac O'Donovan, Jun Park, Maria Angeles Perez-Jimenez, Sabine Rona, Felix Rosenow, Asim Shahid, Stephan Schuele, Christopher Skidmore, Bernhard Steinhoff, Charles Á Szabó, Jennifer Sweet, Nitin Tandon, Adriana Tanner, and Sadatoshi Tsuji.
• Neurology, Case Medical Center, Cleveland, Ohio, U.S.A.
• Epilepsia. 2014 Aug 1;55(8):1140-4.

AbstractThere are at least five types of alterations of consciousness that occur during epileptic seizures: auras with illusions or hallucinations, dyscognitive seizures, epileptic delirium, dialeptic seizures, and epileptic coma. Each of these types of alterations of consciousness has a specific semiology and a distinct pathophysiologic mechanism. In this proposal we emphasize the need to clearly define each of these alterations/loss of consciousness and to apply this terminology in semiologic descriptions and classifications of epileptic seizures. The proposal is a consensus opinion of experienced epileptologists, and it is hoped that it will lead to systematic studies that will allow a scientific characterization of the different types of alterations/loss of consciousness described in this article.Wiley Periodicals, Inc. © 2014 International League Against Epilepsy.

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