Practise seizure classification, EEG interpretation, medication selection, emergency treatment, and referral decisions for ABPN epilepsy subspecialty certification. These are independent learning materials, not official exam questions or a pass prediction.
Read the ABPN Epilepsy Subspecialty Certification: Clinical Reasoning Guide study guide and official exam sourcesExam outline and official sources
American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology, Inc. (ABPN) · ABPN Epilepsy Certification Content Specifications, dated December 2025 and currently linked for the October 19–23, 2026 initial certification examination; no separate effective date is stated. Format and scoring instructions updated July 2, 2026. The workbook label 'American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology - Subspecialty in Epilepsy' maps to the official Subspecialty Certification Examination in Epilepsy; the assigned canonical slug is preserved.
This original 20-question sample covers selected topics across the outline. It does not reproduce official exam questions or cover every tested topic.
- ABPN — Epilepsy: Initial Certification
- ABPN Epilepsy Certification Content Specifications — December 2025
- Instructions for the Subspecialty Certification Examination in Epilepsy
- ILAE — Updated Classification of Epileptic Seizures (2025)
- ILAE Official Report — A Practical Clinical Definition of Epilepsy
- GeneReviews — Glucose Transporter Type 1 Deficiency Syndrome
- ILAE EpilepsyDiagnosis.org — Juvenile Myoclonic Epilepsy: Overview
- ILAE EpilepsyDiagnosis.org — Juvenile Myoclonic Epilepsy: EEG
- ILAE EpilepsyDiagnosis.org — Epilepsy Imitators
- ACNS Guideline 7 — Guidelines for EEG Reporting
- Routine and Sleep EEG: Minimum Recording Standards of the IFCN and ILAE
- ACNS Standardized Critical Care EEG Terminology — 2021 Version
- ILAE EpilepsyDiagnosis.org — Hippocampal Sclerosis: Imaging
- AAN Clinician Summary — Use of fMRI in Presurgical Epilepsy Evaluation
- Faciobrachial Dystonic Seizures Precede LGI1 Antibody Limbic Encephalitis
- Ethosuximide, Valproic Acid, and Lamotrigine in Childhood Absence Epilepsy
- ILAE Surgical Therapies Commission — Timing of Referral for Epilepsy Surgery (2022)
- AES — Guideline for Treatment of Prolonged Seizures in Children and Adults
- AAN, AES, and SMFM — Guideline Issued for People with Epilepsy Who May Become Pregnant
- DailyMed — Lamotrigine Prescribing Information
- FDA Product Classification — Implanted Brain Stimulator for Epilepsy
- FDA-Hosted NeuroPace RNS System Patient Manual — Original Approval-Era Document
- AAN/AES Clinician Summary — SUDEP Incidence Rates and Risk Factors
- AAN — Management of Functional Seizures: Clinician Summary
- ILAE EpilepsyDiagnosis.org — Lennox-Gastaut Syndrome: EEG
- ILAE EpilepsyDiagnosis.org — Infantile Epileptic Spasms Syndrome: EEG
- DailyMed — Ethosuximide Oral Solution Prescribing Information
- updated-classification-of-epileptic-seizures-2025.pdf
- epi4.12414.pdf
- Routine-and-sleep-EEG-Minimum-recording-standards-of-the-internationa-federation-of-clinical-neurophysiology-and-the-international-league-against-epilepsy.pdf
- LENNOX-GASTAUT SYNDROME (LGS)
- International-MOGAD-Panel-Proposed-Criteria.pdf
- DownloadAsset.aspx
- Efficacy of levetiracetam, fosphenytoin, and valproate for established status epilepticus by age group (ESETT): a double-blind, responsive-adaptive, randomised controlled trial - PMC
- cse-treatment-chart-final_rerelease.pdf
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- Epileptic_Disorders_2025_Schuele.pdf
- EEGGuideline3Montage_final20160323revclean_v1.pdf
- These highlights do not include all the information needed to use VALPROATE SODIUM INJECTION safely and effectively. See full prescribing information for VALPROATE SODIUM INJECTION. VALPROATE SODIUM injection, for intravenous injectionInitial U.S. Approval: 1996
- DailyMed - FOSPHENYTOIN SODIUM injection, solution
- P960009S219D.pdf
- The VNS Therapy Magnet - VNS Therapy Epilepsy | LivaNova UK
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- Auvin-etal_2024_Refining-management-strategies-for-Lennox-Gastaut-syndrome-Updated-algorithm.pdf
Subspecialty Certification Examination in Epilepsy
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A child has early-onset seizures, developmental impairment, and exercise-related dystonia. Blood glucose is normal, but appropriately paired testing shows low CSF glucose, and a pathogenic SLC2A1 variant is identified. Which mechanism best explains the neurologic findings?
Subspecialty Certification Examination in Epilepsy
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Neuroscience and mechanism of disease
Genetic and developmental disorders — cerebral energy metabolism
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