Infant and childhood epilepsy and epilepsy syndrome

About 75% of epilepsy and epilepsy syndromes occur from infancy to childhood. In addition to clinically common idiopathic and symptomatic epilepsy syndromes, many other epilepsies of infancy and childhood and epilepsy syndromes, both It is a type of epilepsy unique to this age, suggesting that epilepsy plays an important role in pediatric diseases. Certain types of childhood epilepsy are age-related. Childhood (4-13 years old) epilepsy is mainly of various types of small seizures; childhood sports epilepsy is often called myoclonus, but late-onset epilepsy also has "myoclonic" It should be noted that the two should not be confused; febrile seizures are more common in children of a certain age such as 6 months to 6 years old; temporal lobe or generalized cuspid activity with benign motor or complex partial epilepsy are seen in 6 to 16 Year-old children; adolescent myoclonic epilepsy occurs in the middle and late adolescence; neonatal epilepsy is mainly focal seizures, showing flexor myoclonus, sometimes extensible.

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