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Testing patients during a seizure Volume 23, issue 5, October 2021

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  • Testing patients during a seizure

Recognizing seizure semiology is essential for identifying, characterizing and classifying seizures [1]. Important semiological features (such as attention, awareness, speech, memory, etc.) require active assessment during seizures. Therefore, standardized protocols for behavioural testing of people with epilepsy are needed in order to assess these semiological features. In 2016, a European consensus procedure was developed by a joint taskforce of the International League Against Epilepsy that focuses on distinguishing behavioural and other semiological findings that are otherwise difficult or impossible to record using video encephalography alone [2]. We created an educational animation video, based on the previously published consensus.

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