1. Improving Diagnostic Accuracy in Epilepsy

3. Program Goals

4. Epilepsy Misdiagnosis

5. Seizure Definition and ILAE Classifications

6. Benefits of EEG in Work-Up of a First Seizure

7. Limitations of Routine EEG

8. Risk of False Positives With EEG

9. Waves

10. Waves (cont)

11. Wave Morphology

12. Patterns (Findings)

13. Spikes and Sharp Waves

14. Spike-Wave Complexes

15. Slow Spike-Wave Complexes

16. Focal Abnormalities

17. Generalized Polyspikes

18. Hypsarrhythmia

19. How EEG Patterns Change With Age

20. Benign Epilepsy With Centrotemporal Spikes

21. Normal Benign Variants and Artifacts

22. Wicket Spikes

23. Benign Epileptiform Transients of Sleep (BETS)

24. Artifacts: Physiologic/Biologic Causes

25. Artifacts: Extraphysiologic Causes

26. Phase Reversals

27. SREDA

28. Other Normal Variants

29. Routine EEG for Pharmacoresistant Epilepsy

30. Routine EEG for Pharmacoresistant Epilepsy

31. Takeaway Points

32. Abbreviations