Dear Colleagues,

The ILAE is seeking your comments on four papers prepared by the Task Force on Nosology and Definitions. These papers provide the definitions for the many epilepsy syndromes that appear in childhood as well as those which cross ages. These definitions will become the League’s formal definitions on these syndromes once edited and approved.

A key step in this process is opening up the proposed definitions for public comment from the many experts around the world that are part of our membership. Please review these extensive papers and share with all of us your thoughts and whether changes should be considered. These comments will be posted on the website (a separate page for each of the four papers) so that your thoughts can stimulate our colleagues to make additional comments and create a discussion within our community.

The papers can be reached through this link: Proposed Classification and Definition of Epilepsy Syndromes

There are links on this page to the four papers, and comments can be sent through a link that is specific to each paper. There is also a link for making general comments on the first page. We realize that these papers are large and that there are four of them, so take on one paper at a time or only the manuscripts that you are most interested in. These papers are now posted for public comment through July 15.

Thank you for taking the time to read and consider the implications of these papers and for sharing your thoughts, which are essential to the development of definitions that we all can agree on.

Edward Bertram
Secretary General