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Sturge-Weber Syndrome (SWS) is an extremely rare epilepsy syndrome that the most recent figures indicate only occurs in around 1 in 20,000 births, but could be as few as 1 in 50,000.  With this syndrome, there is often a birthmark on one side of the face that’s often the first sign of SWS. This can…

Category: Syndromes

Unverricht-Lundborg Disease (ULD) is a very rare epilepsy syndrome that research indicates only affects between 1 to 4 children in every 100,000. Most children with ULD will develop tit between the ages of 6 and 16.  ULD is part of a group of epilepsy syndromes known as ‘progressive myoclonic epilepsies’ and is due to an…

Category: Syndromes

A rare syndrome that can begin at any age between 18 months and 17 years, self-limiting late-onset occipital epilepsy usually begins in middle childhood, between the ages of 7 and 10.  In approximately a third of cases, there will be some family history of the syndrome and some children will have had seizures associated with…

Category: Syndromes

There is very little known about self-limiting and pharmacoresponsive focal epilepsy, which means that it is currently unknown how common it is, only that out of every 100 children whose epilepsy starts below the ages of 2 years, between 5 and 10 will have this particular syndrome. What is known is that it appears to…

Category: Syndromes

A relatively uncommon syndrome, self-limited neonatal convulsions occurs in babies and young infants and initially presents with seizures which start in the first 28 days of life (the neonatal period). This syndrome was once informally known as ‘5th day fits’ as it often starts on the 5th day of life, although in reality can be…

Category: Syndromes

Ring Chromosome 20 (R20) is a condition that comes from an abnormality in chromosome 20. R20 is a rare condition that can quite often be the cause of epilepsy in children. Each human being has 23 pairs of chromosomes (giving them 46 in total), these important structures are held within each cell of the body…

Category: Syndromes