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Epilepsy is a common pediatric neurologic disorder that is difficult to manage in a substantial portion of children. Levetiracetam (LEV) is a novel antiepileptic drug (AED) that has recently been approved as add-on treatment for various seizure types in epilepsy populations that include children: for refractory partial seizures in epilepsy patients >/=4 years old, for myoclonic seizures in juve...

Juvenile myoclonic epilepsy (JME) is a frequent idiopathic generalised epilepsy syndrome with typical clinical and EEG features that can usually be controlled by valproate monotherapy. JME may be underdiagnosed or misdiagnosed; in the latter case, it may be mistaken for partial epilepsy. The incorrect diagnosis of JME is likely to result in inappropriate therapy, which may, in turn, worsen the ...

34 Focal structural changes and cognitive dysfunction in juvenile myoclonic epilepsy J. O’Muircheartaigh, C. Vollmar, G.J. Barker, V. Kumari, M.R. Symms, P. Thompson, J.S. Duncan, M.J. Koepp, and M.P. Richardson 41 Multimodality imaging in the surgical treatment of children with nonlesional epilepsy J.H. Seo, K. Holland, D. Rose, L. Rozhkov, H. Fujiwara, A.Byars, T.Arthur, T.DeGrauw, J.L. Leach...

(DGN) explicitly recommend the anticonvulsive agent levetiracetam – in addition to lamotrigine – as the agent of first choice for initial treatment of focal seizures with or without secondary generalisation from the age of 16 years onward. Furthermore, levetiracetam is indicated for additional treatment of myoclonic seizures in adults and adolescents from the age of 12 years onward with juvenil...

We report a case of graphogenic epilepsy as a variant of language-induced epilepsy. A 25-year-old, right-handed woman had noticed for the previous 10 years that writing almost always provoked jerks or a jerking sensation in her right hand. No other triggers, including facets of language function such as reading and speaking, elicited any epileptic seizures. Ictal EEG demonstrated an initial lef...

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