Convulsions (Including Epilepsy) in Childhood

Convulsions (including epilepsy) in childhood.

Of all the upsets which can happen to the infant or child, it would be safe to say that none is as alarming to the parents as a convulsion. A good knowledge of the causes of convulsions is therefore essential, if one is to handle the situation well, and relieve the parental anxiety with authority. The diagnosis may sometimes be difficult, for even 'windy pains ' with screaming may simulate a co...

Convulsions in infancy and childhood.

A splice-site mutation in GABRG2 associated with childhood absence epilepsy and febrile convulsions.

CONTEXT Missense mutations in the GABRG2 gene, which encodes the gamma 2 subunit of central nervous gamma-aminobutyric acid (GABA)(A) receptors, have recently been described in 2 families with idiopathic epilepsy. In one of these families, the affected individuals predominantly exhibited childhood absence epilepsy and febrile convulsions. OBJECTIVE To assess the role of GABRG2 in the genetic ...

The changing incidence of convulsions in childhood.

Infantile convulsions have long been an enigma and in spite of the progress of mediial science there emnains much that is still not clear. Ifants have convulsions more often than adults or olier children and for this fact various exlanations have been adduced. The doctrine of peripheral irritation whereby the immaturity of the infant's nervous system was held to result in convuions on the sligh...

Epilepsy, Grand Mal, Petit Mal Convulsions

traneous" hormones, (e) metabolic studies, (f) sensitivity of presumed target organ, (g) effects of removal of certain of the endocrines, (h) effect of hypophysectomy on target organs (related to subject "g"), and (i) graft studies. No student of experimental embryology should be denied the opportunity of reading Jost's essay. Finally, the essay by Greep on the interrelations of pituitary funct...