Clinically differentiating between localisation related and generalised epilepsy is important because it carries significant implications for planning diagnostic management strategy. Asymmetry of body parts such as toes, popliteal crease levels, thumbs, cubital crease levels, and forehead and facial structures, are common in patients with localisation related epilepsy syndromes. We retrospectiv...

We evaluated the P300 components of event-related potentials (ERP) in 64 cryptogenic partial epilepsy (CPE) patients, and 52 idiopathic generalized epilepsy (IGE) patients as well as in their age-matched control groups. The P200, N200 and P300 latencies recorded from Cz were significantly longer in CPE patients compared with those of their control group (P = 0.0371, P = 0.0092 and P = 0.0405, r...

http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.seizure.2015.08.002 1059-1311/ 2015 British Epilepsy Association. Published by Elsevier Ltd. All rights re A 44-year-old woman with epilepsy since youth and no previous cardiovascular event, was admitted to the epilepsy unit for a thorough study with video-EEG. She usually had several complex partial seizures every month, although occasionally presented generalized e...