Epilepsy is very common in tuberous sclerosis complex and occurs in 80 to 90% of affected individuals during their lifetime. Onset usually occurs during childhood, and up to one third of children with ...

Juvenile myoclonic epilepsy (JME) is a type of epilepsy that starts in in childhood or the teen years. People who have it wake up from sleep with quick, jerking movements of their arms and legs. These ...

Infantile spasms – a rare but serious seizure disorder in babies, are found to occur as a result of genetic mutations in the molecular pathway of the brain region responsible for memory and learning.

Complex epilepsy syndromes: What antiseizure therapies (alternative or add-on) are effective in the treatment of complex epilepsy syndromes (that is, Dravet syndrome, Lennox–Gastaut syndrome, ...

‘Early myoclonic encephalopathy’ (ILAE; OMIM 609304) is one of the catastrophic epilepsies starting in the neonatal period. Prognosis is generally poor with early death in half of the patients. The ...

We identified 13 patients (2.8%) who were started on the ketogenic diet before any anticonvulsant had been used or for whom only one had been tried. These patients are summarized in Table 1. Ten ...

Three-year-old had 1,000 seizures a day. Now, she only has a handful, mom says. Addyson Benton, a 3-year-old girl who has epileptic seizures has made a dramatic improvement since moving to Colorado to ...

West syndrome or West's Syndrome is an uncommon to rare epileptic disorder in infants. West syndrome was named after the English doctor and surgeon William James West (1793-1848), who lived in ...

Sabril approved for infantile spasms and adult epileptic seizures The FDA has approved Sabril (vigabatrin, from Lundbeck) oral solution as monotherapy for infantile spasms in children 1 month to 2 ...