Status Epilepticus
Status Epilepticus Status epilepticus (SE) is defined as “an epileptic seizure that is sufficiently prolonged or repeated at sufficiently brief intervals so as to produce an unvarying and enduring epileptic…
Occasional Seizures Other Than Febrile Convulsions
Occasional Seizures Other Than Febrile Convulsions Seizures precipitated by extracerebral factors, seizures resulting from acute brain insults, and single epileptic attacks, by definition, differ from epilepsy, which is a chronic…
Febrile Convulsions
Febrile Convulsions Febrile seizures are the prototype of occasional epileptic seizures (see Chapter 1). That young children have a high susceptibility to convulsions in a setting of acute fever has…
Epilepsy in Infants
Epilepsy in Infants This chapter deals with convulsive disorders in the first 2 years of life, with the exception of those that occur in the neonatal period (first 28 days…
Epilepsies Characterized by Partial Seizures
Epilepsies Characterized by Partial Seizures Focal seizure is the term proposed by the Task Force of the International League Against Epilepsy (ILAE) to designate seizures in which the first clinical…
Neonatal Seizures
Neonatal Seizures The variable terminology used in the literature when neonatal paroxysmal events (e.g., convulsions, seizures, epileptic seizures, nonepileptic seizures, muscular twitching, and motor automatisms) are discussed reflects the difficulty…
Landau-Kleffner Syndrome and Syndrome of Continuous Spike-Waves of Slow Sleep
Landau-Kleffner Syndrome and Syndrome of Continuous Spike-Waves of Slow Sleep SYNDROME OF EPILEPTIC APHASIA WITH SEIZURE DISORDER Since Landau and Kleffner (1957) described six children who developed aphasia after apparently…
Epilepsies with Tonic-Clonic Seizures
Epilepsies with Tonic-Clonic Seizures Generalized tonic-clonic seizures (GTCSs), also known as grand mal seizures, represent the prototypical epileptic seizures. However, GTCSs do not constitute a homogeneous group, and they occur…
Epilepsies with Typical Absence Seizures
Epilepsies with Typical Absence Seizures Absences are generalized nonconvulsive epileptic seizures; in other words, they are seizures without local onset, expressed predominantly by disturbances of consciousness, with no or relatively…
Myoclonic Epilepsies Associated with Progressive Degenerative Disorders: Progressive Myoclonic Epilepsies
Myoclonic Epilepsies Associated with Progressive Degenerative Disorders: Progressive Myoclonic Epilepsies The progressive myoclonic epilepsies (PMEs) have received considerable attention in the neurologic literature (Genton et al, 2000; Roger et al.,…
