OVERVIEW Print Section Listen Gastaut presented a series of 36 patients with seizures suggesting occipital lobe origin, associated migraine-like symptoms, and occipital paroxysms of spike-waves, and proposed this condition as…
CLINICAL OVERVIEW Print Section Listen Benign childhood epilepsy with centrotemporal spikes (BCECTS) is among the most frequent benign focal epilepsies in childhood and accounts for about 15%–25% of all epileptic…
INTRODUCTION Print Section Listen Focal seizures in the older child and adolescent are usually similar in presentation to the adult. However, children with profound developmental delay may still display an…
INTRODUCTION Print Section Listen Epilepsy has often been described as the great imitator with protean paroxysmal manifestations from sudden arousals out of sleep, to confusional states, to stiffening only when…
OVERVIEW Print Section Listen Juvenile myoclonic epilepsy (JME) is a common epilepsy syndrome classified as a type of idiopathic generalized epilepsy (IGE).1 The syndrome is also known as impulsiv petit…
OVERVIEW Print Section Listen Generalized tonic–clonic seizures (GTCS) or “grand-mal seizures” are easily recognizable and their selective occurrence during early morning in some patients has been identified for many years…
CHILDHOOD ABSENCE EPILEPSY (CAE) Print Section Listen EPIDEMIOLOGY Childhood absence epilepsy is defined as frequent daily absence seizures (pyknolepsy) in normal school age children. It accounts for 8%–15% of all…
OVERVIEW Print Section Listen Management of epilepsy in childhood and adolescents requires accurate characterization of seizures and epilepsy syndrome. The inability to do so may result in the selection of…
CLINICAL OVERVIEW Print Section Listen Febrile seizures (FS) are the most common type of convulsion among pediatric patients. The prevalence of FS varies between different populations, affecting, for example, an…
INTRODUCTION Print Section Listen Several studies have demonstrated that seizure manifestations evolve according to developmental age. Although myelination is largely complete by two years of age, clinical seizure manifestations continue…
