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Auras are frequent in idiopathic generalized epilepsy.

Boylan LS, Labovitz DL, Jackson SC, Starner K, Devinsky O

Department of Neurology, New York University School of Medicine, New York, NY 10016, USA. laura.boylan@med.nyu.edu

The occurrence of an aura is often considered evidence of a partial rather than an idiopathic generalized epilepsy syndrome. The authors examined this hypothesis by prospectively recording reports of auras by patients being admitted for video-EEG monitoring. Auras were equally common (70%) among patients with idiopathic generalized epilepsy as they were among those with localization-related epilepsy. Presence of an aura is not a reliable indicator of localization-related epilepsy.

Published 25 July 2006 in Neurology, 67(2): 343-5.
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