Is NORSE a meaningful clinical entity?

Nicolas Gaspard; Simon Shorvon

doi:10.1016/j.yebeh.2023.109097

Is NORSE a meaningful clinical entity?

Epilepsy Behav. 2023 Apr:141:109097. doi: 10.1016/j.yebeh.2023.109097. Epub 2023 Feb 18.

Authors

Nicolas Gaspard¹, Simon Shorvon²

Affiliations

¹ Service de Neurologie, Hôpital Universitaire de Bruxelles - Hôpital Erasme, Bruxelles, Belgium; Department of Neurology, Yale University, New Haven, CT, USA.
² UCL Queen Square Institute of Neurology, London, Great Britain, United Kingdom. Electronic address: S.shorvon@ucl.ac.uk.

PMID: 36807989
DOI: 10.1016/j.yebeh.2023.109097

Abstract

This article summarises the arguments for and against the proposition, debated at the 8th London-Innsbruck Colloquium on Status Epilepticus and Acute Seizures, that: 'NORSE is a meaningful clinical entity'. Here the two sides of the argument are briefly presented. This article is published as part of the special issue of Epilepsy & Behavior which are the proceedings of the 8th London-Innsbruck Colloquium on Status Epilepticus and Acute Seizures.

Keywords: Meaning of 'disease'; NORSE; Status epilepticus.

Publication types

Review

MeSH terms

Epilepsy* / diagnosis
Humans
London
Seizures
Status Epilepticus* / diagnosis