A topic category for each abstract must be selected during the submission process; the abstract topics are as follows:
- Alternative therapies
- Basic science – mechanisms and models
- Basic science – biomarkers
- Basic science –treatments
- Classification
- Clinical neurophysiology
- Clinical semiology
- Clinical pharmacology (drug trials, pharmacokinetics and therapeutics)
- Epidemiology
- Epilepsy and neurodevelopment
- Epilepsy in the elderly
- Epilepsy and women
- Epilepsy in childhood
- Epileptic encephalopathies
- Genetics (including genetic causes, pharmacogenetics and basic genetics)
- Neonatal seizures/syndromes
- Neuroimaging
- Neurostimulation
- Neuropathology
- Epilepsy surgery
- Neuropsychology of epilepsy
- Non-epileptic paroxysmal events
- Organization of care
- Prognosis and outcome
- Psychiatry and epilepsy
- Social issues
- Status epilepticus
- Other