Convulsions in Childhood

Convulsions (including epilepsy) in childhood.

Of all the upsets which can happen to the infant or child, it would be safe to say that none is as alarming to the parents as a convulsion. A good knowledge of the causes of convulsions is therefore essential, if one is to handle the situation well, and relieve the parental anxiety with authority. The diagnosis may sometimes be difficult, for even 'windy pains ' with screaming may simulate a co...

Convulsions in infancy and childhood.

The changing incidence of convulsions in childhood.

Infantile convulsions have long been an enigma and in spite of the progress of mediial science there emnains much that is still not clear. Ifants have convulsions more often than adults or olier children and for this fact various exlanations have been adduced. The doctrine of peripheral irritation whereby the immaturity of the infant's nervous system was held to result in convuions on the sligh...

The blood-sugar in convulsions of infancy and childhood.

It has long been recognized that severe convulsive attacks are followed by depletion of the carbohydrate reserves of the body. Indeed one of the experimental methods of exhausting the glycogen of the tissues is by inducing convulsions by the administration of strychnine or other similar drugs. Clearly in these circumstances the reduction of available carbohydrate is the result and not the cause...

A splice-site mutation in GABRG2 associated with childhood absence epilepsy and febrile convulsions.

CONTEXT Missense mutations in the GABRG2 gene, which encodes the gamma 2 subunit of central nervous gamma-aminobutyric acid (GABA)(A) receptors, have recently been described in 2 families with idiopathic epilepsy. In one of these families, the affected individuals predominantly exhibited childhood absence epilepsy and febrile convulsions. OBJECTIVE To assess the role of GABRG2 in the genetic ...