ILAE definition of the Idiopathic Generalized Epilepsy Syndromes: Position statement by the ILAE Task Force on Nosology and Definitions

Affiliations

• ¹ Francis Rohmer Neurology Epilepsy Units, National Institute of Health and Medical Research 1258, Federation of Translational Medicine of Strasbourg, Strasbourg University, Strasbourg, France.
• ² New York University Grossman School of Medicine and NYU Langone Health, New York, New York, USA.
• ³ Austin Health and Royal Children's Hospital, Florey Institute, Murdoch Children's Research Institute, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.
• ⁴ Institute of Neurology, Clinical Hospital, Faculty of Medicine, University of the Republic, Montevideo, Uruguay.
• ⁵ Department of Neurology, American Center for Psychiatry and Neurology, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates.
• ⁶ Department of Neurology, Sidney Kimmel Medical College at Thomas Jefferson University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA.
• ⁷ Salmaniya Medical Complex-Government Hospital, Manama, Bahrain.
• ⁸ Paediatric Neurosciences Research Group, Royal Hospital for Children and Institute of Health & Wellbeing, University of Glasgow, member of EpiCARE, Glasgow, UK.
• ⁹ Department of Neurology and Neuroscience Institute, Christian Doppler University Hospital, Paracelsus Medical University, Center for Cognitive Neuroscience, member of EpiCARE, Salzburg, Austria.
• ¹⁰ Department of Public Health, Health Services Research, and Health Technology Assessment, University for Health Sciences, Medical Informatics, and Technology, Hall in Tirol, Austria.
• ¹¹ Rare and Complex Epilepsy Unit, Department of Neuroscience, Bambino Gesù Children's Hospital, Scientific Institute for Research and Health Care, member of EpiCARE, Rome, Italy.
• ¹² Prince of Wales Hospital, University of New South Wales, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.
• ¹³ Department of Pediatrics and Child Health, Aga Khan University, East Africa, Nairobi, Kenya.
• ¹⁴ Neurosciences Unit, Queensland Children's Hospital, South Brisbane, Queensland, Australia.
• ¹⁵ Faculty of Medicine, University of Queensland, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia.
• ¹⁶ Reference Center for Rare Epilepsies, Department of Pediatric Neurology, Necker-Enfants Malades Hospital, Public Hospital Network of Paris, member of EpiCARE, Imagine Institute, National Institute of Health and Medical Research, Mixed Unit of Research 1163, University of Paris, Paris, France.
• ¹⁷ Indian Epilepsy Center, New Delhi, India.
• ¹⁸ Department of Paediatric Neurology, Red Cross War Memorial Children's Hospital, Neuroscience Institute, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa.
• ¹⁹ Pediatric Neurology, Public Hospital Network of Paris, Robert Debré Hospital, NeuroDiderot, National Institute of Health and Medical Research, Department Medico-Universitaire, Innovation Robert-Debré, University of Paris, Paris, France.
• ²⁰ University Institute of France, Paris, France.
• ²¹ Department of Clinical Neurosciences, University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta, Canada.
• ²² Department of Neuroscience, Monash University, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.
• ²³ Department of Medicine, Austin Health, University of Melbourne, Heidelberg, Victoria, Australia.
• ²⁴ Isabelle Rapin Division of Child Neurology, Saul R. Korey Department of Neurology, and Departments of Neuroscience and Pediatrics, Albert Einstein College of Medicine and Montefiore Medical Center, Bronx, New York, USA.
• ²⁵ Department of Biomedical and Neuromotor Sciences, University of Bologna, Bologna, Italy.
• ²⁶ Institute of Neurological Sciences, Scientific Institute for Research and Health Care, member of EpiCARE, Bologna, Italy.
• ²⁷ Divisions of Child and Adolescent Neurology and Epilepsy, Department of Neurology, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota, USA.