title: [Epilepsies: from semiology to treatments].
abstract: The epilepsies represent different neurological disorders in terms of aetiology, prognosis and treatment, sharing the occurrence of clinical seizures of various clinical pictures following the development of abnormal hypersynchrone electrical discharges from the brain cortical mantle. It becomes therefore crucial to first recognize the epileptic nature of any paroxystic or sudden clinical event and, further, to establish the syndromic diagnosis in order to propose the most adequate treatment and prognosis. Important advances in functional brain imaging technologies and also in the description of seizures semiology using video-EEG have permitted to cure certain epileptic syndromes by surgery. On the other hand, the persistence of a set of pharmaco-resistant and incurable epileptic syndromes must encourage the pursuit of basic researches, including new therapeutic pharmacological approaches as well as the use of techniques using brain neurostimulation.
authors.affiliation: Service de Physiologie et de Biochimie du système nerveux, CHU Sart Tilman, Liège, Belgique. tgrisar@ulg.ac.be
authors.forename: T
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Grisar
mesh_terms: D003663:Decision Trees; D004827:Epilepsy / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000628:therapy*; D006801:Humans