ILAE Genetic Literacy Series: Self-limited familial epilepsy syndromes with onset in neonatal age and infancy.

Abstract excerpt

The self-limited (familial) epilepsies with onset in neonates or infants, formerly called benign familial neonatal and/or infantile epilepsies, are autosomal dominant disorders characterized by neonatal- or infantile-onset focal motor seizures and the absence of neurodevelopmental complications. Seizures tend to remit during infancy or early childhood and are therefore called "self-limited". A positive family...

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• Child, Preschool
• Epilepsy
• Epilepsy, Benign Neonatal
• Epileptic Syndromes
• Genetic Testing