R retrospective, P prospective, CC case – control study, MC multicenter controlled trail, PB populational based, HB hospital based, C clinical, CT computed tomographic scan, MRI cerebral magnetic resonance imaging, CUS cranial ultrasonography / cerebral ultrasound, USG ultrasonography, EEG electroencephalogram (standard), CpH cord Ph, BpH blood Ph, HT therapeutic hypothermia It can be noticed that seizure diagnosis was based on clinical grounds and functional explorations naming neuroimaging and/or EEG procedures (conventional EEG, aEEG, vEEG, CUS, MRI). The minimum number of newborns considered in these studies was 55, while the maximum was 403 with a mean of 148 (SD=86.75, median=112, IQR: (98,175)) and a total of 2226 evaluated cases.