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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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…
Epilepsies with Predominantly Myoclonic Seizures Myoclonic seizures are a common feature of many types of epilepsy at all ages, and they are, therefore, a nonspecific manifestation. Epilepsies characterized by “true”…
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.,…
