About Epilepsy

Epilepsy (sometimes referred to as a seizure disorder) is a disorder in which nerve cells of the brain from time to time release abnormal electrical impulses. These cause a temporary malfunction of the other nerve cells of the brain, resulting in alteration of, or complete loss of consciousness. These seizures are transient signs and/or symptoms due to abnormal excessive or synchronous neuronal activity in the brain.

There are different types of epilepsy - different syndromes :

Temporal lobe epilepsy
Juvenile myoclonic epilepsy
Benign focal epilepsy of childhood (Benign Rolandic epilepsy)
Childhood absence epilepsy
Occipital lobe epilepsy
Infantile spasms (West syndrome)
Frontal lobe epilepsy
Lennox-Gastaut syndrome

The Lennox-Gastaut syndrome (LGS), also known as Lennox syndrome, is a difficult-to-treat form of childhood-onset epilepsy that most often appears between the second and sixth year of life, and is characterized by frequent seizures and different seizure types; it is often accompanied by mental retardation and behavior problems. Read more about Lennox-Gastaut here...

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