Imitators of epileptic seizures

C. P. Panayiotopoulos is an internationally renowned leader and expert in the diagnosis, treatment and management of epilepsy. C. P. Panayiotopoulos is currently practising as Locum Consultant Neurologist on epilepsies at John Radcliffe Hospital, Oxford and remains Consultant emeritus at St. Thomas' Hospital, London where he has served over the last 20 years as a Consultant in Clinical Neurophysiology and Epilepsies.

• Introduction.- Main types of epileptic seizures and their imitators.- Syncopal attacks imitating epileptic seizures.- Psychogenic NEPEs imitating epileptic seizures.- Non-epileptic paroxysmal movement disorders imitating epileptic seizures.- Non-epileptic severe amnesic and confusional attacks imitating epileptic seizures.- NEPEs occurring during sleep and sleep disorders.- Subjective non-epileptic paroxysmal symptoms imitating simple focal seizures.- Migraine, migralepsy, basilar migraine with EEG occipital paroxysms and diagnostic errors.- Cerebrovascular NEPEs imitating epileptic seizures.​