Background: Patients with loss of consciousness and convulsion often have the diagnosis of epilepsy despite normal electroencephalograms (EEGs). Objective: To evaluate the proportion of patients ...

Recurrent seizures are debilitating and can sometimes, be fatal. The onset and presentation of seizures vary significantly among epilepsy patients. Of more than 25 categories of seizure presentations ...

Extract: In a cohort of 18,500 newborn infants, those who had experienced one or more convulsions were studied. Data were available for the unaffected as well as for the affected children. All ...

The baseline clinical characteristics are shown in Table I. Neurologists referred 64 patients, but nine were excluded from the study by exclusion criteria. The study included 55 consecutive patients: ...