Childhood and Juvenile Absence Epilepsies Edouard Hirsch Pierre Thomas Chrysostomos P. Panayiotopoulos Introduction Typical Absences: The Symptoms Typical absences (TAs) are epileptic seizures manifested by impairment of consciousness and 2.5-…
Late-onset Childhood Occipital Epilepsy (Gastaut Type) Giuseppe Gobbi Renzo Guerrini Salvatore Grosso Introduction Occipital epilepsies commonly start in childhood or adolescence and include two etiologic groups: Symptomatic and idiopathic epilepsies….
Early-onset Benign Childhood Occipital Epilepsy (Panayiotopoulos Type) Natalio Fejerman Introduction In the first edition of this book, only a few lines mentioned this condition under the heading of Childhood Epilepsy…
Benign Childhood Epilepsy with Centrotemporal Spikes Natalio Fejerman Introduction The recognition that some epilepsies in children have focal clinical manifestations and unilateral electroencephalographic (EEG) discharges with benign evolution has been…
Overview: Syndromes of Late Childhood and Adolescence Jean Aicardi Introduction The incidence of epilepsy declines after the first few years of life but remains higher than in adults.21 Greater maturity…
Myoclonic Status in Nonprogressive Encephalopathy Bernardo Dalla Bernardina Introduction Despite the existence in the literature of proof of the possible occurrence in infants and young children of an absence status…
Hemiconvulsion-Hemiplegia-Epilepsy Syndrome Alexis Arzimanoglou Charlotte Dravet Patrick Chauvel Introduction Hemiconvulsion-hemiplegia-epilepsy (HHE), described by Gastaut et al.17 in 1957, was not considered as a syndromic entity in the 1989 International League…
Epilepsy with Myoclonic Astatic Seizures Olivier Dulac Anna Kaminska Introduction Epilepsy with myoclonic–astatic seizures (EMAS) is a recently identified type of idiopathic, potentially severe epilepsy. It is characterized by a…
Idiopathic Myoclonic Epilepsy in Infancy Charlotte Dravet Federico Vigevano Introduction The syndrome of benign myoclonic epilepsy in infancy (BMEI) was not clearly identified before its first description in seven infants…
Severe Myoclonic Epilepsy in Infancy (Dravet Syndrome) Charlotte Dravet Michelle Bureau Introduction Severe myoclonic epilepsy in infancy is one of the most severe epilepsies affecting the infants and deserves to…
