Familial lateral temporal lobe epilepsy confirmed with intracranial electroencephalography and successfully treated by surgery.

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Documentation of familial epilepsy is of paramount importance for identification of epilepsy-associated genes, elucidation of pathomechanisms of epilepsy, and development of treatment of epilepsy. We report a Japanese family with 5 members with lateral temporal lobe epilepsy beginning around the second decade of life. All seizures were intractable to medical treatment, and four patients underwent surgical...

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