Table 1: Genetic and Developmental Epilepsy syndromes by age of onset

 Neonatal period

        Benign familial neonatal seizures (BFNS)

        Early myoclonic encephalopathy (EME)

        Ohtahara syndrome

Infancy

        Migrating partial seizures of infancy

        West syndrome

        Myoclonic epilepsy in infancy (MEI)

        Benign infantile seizures

        Dravet syndrome

        Myoclonic encephalopathy in nonprogressive disorders

Childhood

        Early onset benign childhood occipital epilepsy (Panayiotopoulos type)

        Epilepsy with myoclonic astatic seizures

        Benign childhood epilepsy with centrotemporal spikes (BCECTS)

        Late onset childhood occipital epilepsy (Gastaut type)

        Epilepsy with myoclonic absences

        Lennox-Gastaut syndrome

        Epileptic encephalopathy with continuous spike-and-wave during sleep (CSWS)
                    including Landau-Kleffner syndrome (LKS)

        Childhood absence epilepsy (CAE)

Adolescence

        Juvenile absence epilepsy (JAE)

        Juvenile myoclonic epilepsy (JME)

        Epilepsy with generalized tonic-clonic seizures only

        Progressive myoclonus epilepsies (PME)

Relation with age less specific

        Autosomal-dominant nocturnal frontal lobe epilepsy (ADNFLE)

        Familial temporal lobe epilepsies

                Autosomal dominant partial epilepsy with auditory features

        Generalized Epilepsies with Febrile seizures plus (FS+)

        Familial focal epilepsy with variable foci

        Reflex epilepsies

                Idiopathic photosensitive occipital lobe epilepsy

                Visual sensitive epilepsies

                Primary reading epilepsy

                Startle epilepsy

Seizure disorders that are not traditionally given the diagnosis of epilepsy:

        Benign neonatal seizures (BNS)

        Febrile seizures (FS)