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Childhood epilepsies
2. Saleh is a 2-year-old male who presented with a self-aborted generalized tonic clonic seizure, which lasted for few minutes with high-grade fever due to pharyngitis. His father who is now a mathematics teacher, used to have seizures with fever between ages 2-4 years. Saleh’s mother is asking whether her child is going to be epileptic in future or not. Best response is that you would tell her...
متن کاملThe Epilepsies in Childhood.
A convulsion or major fit is a sudden outburst of motor spasm, or involuntary movement, of the whole or of part of the body, usually associated with loss of consciousness. In a minor fit there is a loss or dimming of consciousness without muscular twitching. The mechanism immediately responsible for the fit is generally accepted to be an excessive discharge of cortical neurones, in a state of p...
متن کاملCatastrophic Epilepsies of Childhood.
The tragedy of epilepsy emerges from the combination of its high prevalence, impact upon sufferers and their families, and unpredictability. Childhood epilepsies are frequently severe, presenting in infancy with pharmaco-resistant seizures; are often accompanied by debilitating neuropsychiatric and systemic comorbidities; and carry a grave risk of mortality. Here, we review the most current bas...
متن کاملThe minor epilepsies of childhood.
Introduction There is no doubt that children suffering from epilepsy tend to manifest its minor forms with greater frequency than adults. However, before considering this problem further, it is essential to define the terms to be used, as a certain amount of confusion has arisen as the result of clinicians and --electroencephalographists sometimes using the same terms to refer to attacks of a d...
متن کاملBrain Development in Childhood
Although human brain development continues throughout childhood and adolescence, it is a non-linear process both structurally and functionally. Here we review studies of brain development in healthy children from the viewpoint of structure and the perfusion of gray and white matter. Gray matter volume increases and then decreases with age, with the developmental time of the peak volume differin...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Journal of Neurology, Neurosurgery & Psychiatry
سال: 2000
ISSN: 0022-3050
DOI: 10.1136/jnnp.68.1.123g