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Genetic Epilepsy with Febrile Seizures Plus (GEFS+) is one of the more unusual epilepsy syndromes as it describes families who have a generational history of different types of seizures in several members. What this means is that there is an extensive family history of epilepsy and seizures, but not necessarily all of the same type.…

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Childhood Epilepsy with Centro-Temporal Spikes (CECTS) is one of the most commonly diagnosed epilepsy syndromes in children. In fact, as many as 1 in 5 children with epilepsy are diagnosed with CECTS.  This particular syndrome affects males slightly more frequently than females and symptoms can start typically anywhere between the ages of 3 and 10…

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Epilepsy of Infancy with Migrating Focal Seizures is one of the more recently discovered epilepsy syndromes having first been described in 1995. The reason for it’s late discovery is that it’s extremely rare and affects somewhere between 1 in 200,000 to 1 in 400,000 people.  The syndrome is believed to be due to abnormal genes,…

Category: Syndromes

Juvenile Myoclonic Epilepsy (JME) is a relatively common syndrome that can occur between the ages of 6 and 26, although the majority of cases fall within the smaller timescale of 12 to 16 years. JME presents more commonly in females than males and has also been known as Janz Syndrome.  Symptoms  JME often presents with…

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Limbic Encephalitis (LE) is a very rare disease that’s often a cause of seizures and epilepsy. Most commonly affecting adults, but LE can affect approximately 1 in 150,000 to 300,000 children in the UK each year. It’s an auto-immune condition whereby the body's own antibodies begin to attack parts of the body, in the case…

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Epilepsy is very varied and affects many people in different ways. There is still much that is unknown about epilepsy and more research is needed before we can fully understand it. One of the many differences that can illustrate this is a collection of childhood epilepsy syndromes.  There are new epilepsy syndromes included and classified…

Category: Syndromes