ILAE Official Report: A practical clinical definition of epilepsy

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Funding Acknowledgements

Robert S. Fisher has received support from, and/or has served as a paid consultant for, the Maslah Saul MD Chair, the Anderson fund for Epilepsy Research, The Susan Horngren Fund, SmartMonitor, and IC-VRx, and has done consulting for Cyberonix, Oracle, and UCB. Alexis Arzimanoglou has received support from, and/or has served as a paid consultant for, Cyberonics, Eisai, GlaxoSmithKline, UCB Pharma, and Viropharma. J. Helen Cross has received support from, and/or has served as a paid consultant for, Eisai, Viropharma, and GlaxoSmithKline. Christian E. Elger has received support from, and/or has served as a paid consultant for, Bial, Eisai, Novartis, Desitin, and UCB. He also received support from the DFG (Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft). Jerome Engel, Jr., receives support from the Jonathan Sinay Chair. Lars Forsgren has received support from, and/or has served as a paid consultant for, GSK, UCB, Eisai, and Orion Pharma. Jacqueline A. French has received support from, and/or has served as a paid consultant via the Epilepsy Study Consortium or the HEP project for, Eisai Medical Research, GlaxoSmithKline, Impax, Johnson & Johnson, Mapp Pharmaceuticals, Novartis, Lundbeck, Pfizer, Sepracor, Sunovion, SK Life Science, Supernus Pharmaceuticals, UCB Inc/Schwarz Pharma, Upsher Smith, Vertex, Eisai Medical Research, LCGH, Impax, Mapp Pharmaceuticals, Novartis, UCB, UCB Inc/Schwarz Pharma, Upsher Smith, and Lundbeck. Dale C. Hesdorffer has received support from, and/or has served as a paid consultant for, UCB, Esai, and UpsherSmith. B.-I. Lee has received support from UCB and GlaxoSmithKline and has done consulting for UCB. Solomon L. Moshe has received support from the Charles Frost Chair In Neurosurgery and Neurology, and has served as a paid consultant for Lundbeck and UCB. Emilio Perucca has received support from, and/or has served as a paid consultant for, Bial, Eisai, GlaxoSmithKline, Lundbeck, Medichem, Pfizer, Sun Pharma, Supernus, UCB Pharma, Viropharma, and Vertex. Ingrid E. Scheffer has received support from, and/or has served as a paid consultant for, UCB, Athena Diagnostics, GlaxoSmithKline, and Janssen-Cilag EMEA. Torbjorn Tomson has received support from, and/or has served as a paid consultant for, GlaxoSmithKline, UCB, Eisai, Sun Pharma, and Bial. S. Wiebe has received support from, and/or has served as a paid consultant for, the Hopewell Professorship in Clinical Neurosciences Research, University of Calgary, and ElectroCore. The remaining authors have no potential conflicts of interest to disclose. We confirm that we have read the Journal's position on issues involved in ethical publication and affirm that this report is consistent with those guidelines.