Transient Loss of Consciousness and Epilepsy

Module Editor: Laura Mantoan, Antonio Gil-Nagel Rein and Eva Theochari


In addition to extensive coverage of epilepsy, from initial presentation and diagnosis to tertiary management including surgery and VNS, in adults and children, this module includes sessions on syncope, acute symptomatic seizures  and psychogenic non-epileptic attacks. In addition to all neuroscience specialities, many sessions are relevant to paediatrics, emergency medicine, cardiology, general physicians/practitioners, and learning disability professionals.

Please select a session from the list below:

Available courses

Use of Antiseizure Medication in Refractory Epilepsy NEW

Choosing Antiseizure Medications for Idiopathic Generalised Epilepsy

Choosing Antiepileptic Drugs for Focal Epilepsy

How to read an ElectroEncephaloGram (EEG)

Differential Diagnosis of Blackouts and Epilepsy

Bibliography Wiki

Identifying epilepsy through patient videos: A guide for medical students and junior doctors

Acute Symptomatic Seizures

Assessment and Treatment of Refractory Epilepsy

Assessment of Patients Presenting with Blackouts

Brain Imaging in Seizures and Epilepsy

Cardiac Syncope

Causes of Epilepsy - Symptomatic

Convulsive Status Epilepticus

Diagnosis of Frontal Lobe Epilepsy

Diagnosis of Temporal Lobe Epilepsy

Epilepsy and Intellectual Disability

Epilepsy in Adolescence

Epileptic Seizures and Syndromes in Neonates and Infants

Idiopathic (Genetic) Epilepsy

Interactions of Antiepileptic Drugs

Management of Epilepsy in Remission

Management of Epilepsy in the Elderly

Management of Women with Epilepsy: Reproductive Issues

Memory and Epilepsy

Monitoring Drug Therapy

Non-convulsive Status Epilepticus

Occipital and Parietal Lobe Epilepsies

Other Childhood Epilepsy Syndromes

Palliative Surgical Treatments for Epilepsy

Pregnancy and Epilepsy

Role of EEG in Assessment for Epilepsy Surgery

Role of EEG in the Diagnosis of Epilepsy

Social Consequences of Epilepsy

Starting Epilepsy Treatment

Surgical Treatment of Epilepsy - Workup and Outcome

Temporal Lobe Surgery for Epilepsy

The Causes of Epilepsy: Idiopathic Epilepsy (Genetic Epilepsy).

The Classification of Seizures and the Epilepsies

The Diagnosis of Dissociative (Non-Epileptic) Seizures

Diagnosis of the Reflex (Vasovagal) Syncope

The Management of Functional/Dissociative (Non-epileptic) Seizures