• everyone with epilepsy can be defined as having an epilepsy syndrome. Epilepsy syndromes are most commonly found in children with epilepsy onset before...
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    for instance benign rolandic epilepsy. Clinical syndromes in which epilepsy is not the main feature (e.g. Angelman syndrome) were categorized symptomatic...
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  • Dravet syndrome (DS), previously known as severe myoclonic epilepsy of infancy (SMEI), is an autosomal dominant genetic disorder which causes a catastrophic...
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    Lennox–Gastaut syndrome (LGS) is a complex, rare, and severe childhood-onset epilepsy syndrome. It is characterized by multiple and concurrent seizure...
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    centrotemporal spikes (BECTS)) is the most common epilepsy syndrome in childhood. Most children will outgrow the syndrome (it starts around the age of 3–13 with...
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  • epilepsy. Other proposed syndromes are Jeavons syndrome (eyelid myoclonia with absences), and genetic generalised epilepsy with phantom absences. Absence...
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    various seizure syndromes, including myoclonic epilepsy, familial neonatal convulsions, childhood absence epilepsy, absence epilepsy, infantile spasms...
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  • medical syndromes. 13q deletion syndrome 17q21.31 microdeletion syndrome 1p36 deletion syndrome 1q21.1 deletion syndrome 1q21.1 duplication syndrome 22q11...
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    absence epilepsy and other generalized epilepsy syndromes, including primary generalized tonic–clonic seizures, juvenile myoclonic epilepsy, and Lennox-Gastaut...
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  • The Epilepsies: Seizures, Syndromes and Management. Oxford: Bladon Medical Publishing; 2005. 258-261. Panayiotopoulos CP. Panayiotopoulos syndrome: a common...
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  • culture-specific syndromes involve somatic symptoms (pain or disturbed function of a body part), while others are purely behavioral. Some culture-bound syndromes appear...
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  • linkage has been shown. Generalized epilepsy with febrile seizures plus (GEFS+) is an umbrella for many other syndromes that share causative genes. Patients...
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  • Febrile infection-related epilepsy syndrome (FIRES), is onset of severe seizures (status epilepticus) following a febrile illness in someone who was previously...
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  • Jeavons syndrome is a type of epilepsy. It is one of the most distinctive reflex syndromes of idiopathic generalized epilepsy characterized by the triad...
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    MERRF syndrome (or myoclonic epilepsy with ragged red fibers) is a mitochondrial disease. It is extremely rare, and has varying degrees of expressivity...
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  • Minassian, BA. (Jul 2009). "Treatment options for epileptic myoclonus and epilepsy syndromes associated with myoclonus". Expert Opin Pharmacother. 10 (10): 1549–60...
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  • Myoclonic astatic epilepsy (MAE), also known as myoclonic atonic epilepsy or Doose syndrome, and renamed "Epilepsy with myoclonic-atonic seizures" in the...
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    PMID 7625442. Leung HT, Ring H (January 2013). "Epilepsy in four genetically determined syndromes of intellectual disability". Journal of Intellectual...
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  • behavioral syndromes, as well as pollination syndromes and seed dispersal syndromes.[citation needed] In orbital mechanics and astronomy, Kessler syndrome refers...
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  • that caused by premature birth. West syndrome appears in 1% to 5% of infants with Down syndrome. This form of epilepsy is relatively difficult to treat in...
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    the third condition that is a diagnosed epilepsy syndrome. Epilepsy syndromes are notably different than epilepsy types, they are identified by a combination...
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    temporal lobe epilepsy is an enduring brain disorder that causes unprovoked seizures from the temporal lobe. Temporal lobe epilepsy is the most common...
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  • Juvenile myoclonic epilepsy (JME), also known as Janz syndrome or impulsive petit mal, is a form of hereditary, idiopathic generalized epilepsy, representing...
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  • myoclonic, or absence seizures. Epilepsy syndromes characterized by repeated reflex seizures are known as reflex epilepsies. Photosensitive seizures are...
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  • Approximately 60% of all people with epilepsy (0.4% of the population of industrialized countries) have focal epilepsy syndromes. In 15% to 20% of these patients...
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  • Sudden unexpected death in epilepsy (SUDEP) is a fatal complication of epilepsy. It is defined as the sudden and unexpected, non-traumatic and non-drowning...
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  • activity. There are two syndromes and several related disorders. Juvenile myoclonic epilepsy is responsible for 7% of cases of epilepsy. Seizures usually begin...
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  • Epilepsy-intellectual disability in females also known as PCDH19 gene-related epilepsy or epileptic encephalopathy, early infantile, 9 (EIEE9), is a rare...
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  • Geschwind syndrome, also known as Gastaut-Geschwind, is a group of behavioral phenomena evident in some people with temporal lobe epilepsy. It is named...
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  • Ernest (June 2022). "ILAE definition of the Idiopathic Generalized Epilepsy Syndromes: Position statement by the ILAE Task Force on Nosology and Definitions"...
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