Negative symptoms of epilepsy
| Symptom | Diagnosis | Distinguishing characteristics |
| Blindness | Occipital epilepsy | Occurs in 25% of occipital seizures, usually other epileptic features such as motor activity or altered awareness |
| Focal paresis | Sensorimotor epilepsy | May rarely occur without preceding clonic jerks in sensorimotor cortex epilepsy |
| Sudden, brief and focal loss of tone | Negative myoclonus | Seen in epileptic and non-epileptic causes of cortical myoclonus |
| Amnesia | Temporal lobe epilepsy | Pure amnesia without other symptoms has been reported occasionally |
| Dysphasia | Focal epilepsy | Occasionally an isolated symptom of epilepsy and may be progressive in focal status epilepticus |