Neurofibromatosis 1, an autosomal dominant neurocutaneous disorder characterized by café-au-lait macules, Lisch nodules, neurofibromas, and learning disabilities, affects approximately 1 in 3000 people. Unlike other neurocutaneous disorders such as tuberous sclerosis, epilepsy is not a common clinical feature, occurring in 3.8–7% of NF1 patients. Rarely, case reports have described patients wit...

Benign partial seizures of adolescence (BPSA) presents as partial seizures with or without secondary generalization occurring isolated or in a cluster in the first 24 to 48 hours after onset in adolescents. Correct recognition of this entity can avoid use of antiepileptic drugs and associated risks. We conducted retrospective review of charts to identify seven cases of BPSA between 11-15 years ...

Jeavons syndrome (JS) is characterized by the triad of eyelid myoclonia with or without absences, eye closure-induced generalized paroxysms and photosensitivity. Occasional generalized tonic–clonic seizures may also occur. Despite having been claimed as a distinct entity among the IGEs by several authors, its inclusion as an epilepsy syndrome in the ILAE classifications is still a matter of deb...

Although epileptic photosensitivity is well known, its genetics and syndromic associations are incompletely understood. Seizures triggered by photic stimulation are usually a manifestation of the idiopathic generalized epilepsies, especially juvenile myoclonic epilepsy (JME), or of the occipital epilepsies. Idiopathic photosensitive occipital epilepsy (IPOE) is a focal epilepsy with colourful e...

INTRODUCTION To analyze the diagnostic accuracy of MRI in patients undergoing parietal and occipital lobe epilepsy surgery. METHODS In a retrospective study, we analyzed MRI scans and neuropathology reports of 42 patients who had undergone resective epilepsy surgery in the parietal and occipital lobe between 1998 and 2003. We evaluated, whether lesions were precisely characterized by MRI and ...

UNLABELLED PURPOSES AND METHODS: Kabuki syndrome (KS) is a rare dysmorphic disorder characterized by multiple congenital anomalies and mental retardation. Although epilepsy is one of the most common clinical complications associated with KS, few studies have evaluated its electroclinical aspects and long-term outcome. Therefore, we describe here a clinical series of 10 Caucasian KS patients who...

Fifteen patients who experienced epileptic seizures while playing video games are described together with a review of 20 cases in the English literature. Nine of the 15 cases and all but two of the reported cases experienced their first seizure while playing video games. Two thirds of patients had idiopathic generalised epilepsy and mainly reported generalised tonic clonic seizures, but some ha...

Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) is the method of choice to search for epileptogenic lesions. We correlated MRI findings with the epileptogenic zone (EZ) depicted by clinical and electroencephalographic (EEG) data. We studied 400 clinical records of patients who had been submitted to MRI studies and we analyzed, retrospectively, their ictal semiology, EEG characteristics and response to treatme...