Epilepsy Jargon

To provide a complete synopsis of epilepsy might take several volumes.  Here I hope to list those most relevant to SUDEP and death from epilepsy.

• Anti-Epileptic Drugs (AEDs): Any drug used in the treatment of epilepsy which generally suppresses the symptoms.
• Childhood Absence Epilepsy (CAE): Often called Petit Mal develops in children between the ages of 4 and 8.  It takes the form of "blanking out".  All motor actions continue but the child loses cognition of their environment.  Initially the blanking out may be for less than a second and increases, over time, in length to a several seconds.  As the length increases it becomes more obvious to those around the child. 
• Dravet Syndrome: Also known as Severe Myoclonic Epilepsy of Infancy (SMEI), is a rare and catastrophic form of intractable epilepsy that begins in infancy.
• Idiopathic Generalized Epilepsy (IGE): Sometimes shortened to Idiopathic Epilepsy, this is a group of epileptic disorders believed to have a strong underlying genetic basis.
• Febrile Seizures (FE): A febrile seizure is a convulsion in a child triggered by a fever.
• Serial Epilepsy: When more than one seizure occurs, with breaks in between. 
• Severe Myoclonic Epilepsy of Infancy (SMEI): See Dravet Syndrome. 
• Status Epilepticus (SE): When more than one seizure occurs without break.  As opposed to Serial Epilepsy.

(I hope to add to this list over time, so check back...)