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SEVERE MYOCLONIC EPILEPSY IN INFANCY (SMEI) OR DRAVET SYNDROME
This is a very rare form of childhood epilepsy. Out of 500 children with epilepsy, only one, or at most two, children are likely...
Myoclonic Epilepsy (the type I have) is the easiest type of epilepsy to control but it also comes...
I’m not going to grow out of my epilepsy; it’s a harsh truth that even now, almost seven years... 
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Lennox-Gastaut syndrome is a severe form of epilepsy that usually begins before 4 years of age... abrupt falls), atypical absence (staring spells), and myoclonic (sudden muscle jerks).
Most children...
it here in the context of diagnosing epilepsy.
Epilepsy is diagnosed upon having more than one unprovoked seizure... an epileptologist to increase the likelihood of accurate diagnosis and treatment.
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but there are certain types of epilepsy that may respond better than others. Myoclonic astatic epilepsy, myoclonic jerks...'s use in treating resistent epilepsy in children. There was considerable interest in what I wrote...
We are lucky to have a 2nd post by Kristi, who is the mother of a young boy with epilepsy. Here is "Part 2" of her post on parenting a child with epilepsy.
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We have entered a stage of holding...
as myoclonic-astatic epilepsy) is a combination of seizures usually including atypical absense seizures...
November is Epilepsy Awareness Month!
The chosen color to represent the fight to find a cure... 
, with another reminder that epilepsy does not discriminate, in fact affecting about 3% of the world's population.... Because of the rapid jerks, or myoclonic jerks, during and sometimes separate, he is also experiencing... 
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