title: Conceptual relevance of new-onset epilepsy.
abstract: The definitions of "first seizure" and "new-onset epilepsy" are arbitrary and rather simple for use to describe the beginning of a complex brain disease in which seizures are only one symptom. A diligent study of early stages in epilepsy including detailed clinical information, psychiatric comorbidities, sophisticated advanced neuroimaging, and timely functional brain tests may provide a better understanding of epileptogenesis. The goal will be to understand the process of evolution to chronic epilepsy and eventually to prevent refractory epilepsy.
authors: Division of Neurology, Department of Medicine Brain Repair Center, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada. b.pohlmann-eden@dal.ca
authors: Bernd
authors: B
authors: Pohlmann-Eden
mesh_terms: D001921:Brain / Q000503:physiopathology; D004569:Electroencephalography; D004827:Epilepsy / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000209:etiology* / Q000503:physiopathology; D006801:Humans; D008279:Magnetic Resonance Imaging; D012640:Seizures / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000209:etiology / Q000503:physiopathology