Panayiotopoulos syndrome is now the formally approved nomenclature for this syndrome in the new International League against Epilepsy report on classification,[24] which abandoned a number of previously used descriptive terms such as early onset benign childhood epilepsy with occipital paroxysms, early onset benign childhood occipital epilepsy, nocturnal childhood occipital epilepsy. The reason for this is that these descriptive terms were criticized as incorrect because in Panayiotopoulos syndrome: (1) Onset of seizures is mainly with autonomic symptoms, which are not occipital lobe manifestations.