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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.
Types of Epilepsy
Symptomatic...
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...
My niece, Chelsea is a beautiful, sweet girl. She is also a very sick young girl. She has a very rare disease called Lafora, a progressive, degenerative myoclonic epilepsy. Since being diagnosed...
, or Severe Myoclonic Epilepsy of Infancy) but she worked with Dr. Gastaut, and wrote the thesis... Epilepsy Conference given by the Epilepsy Foundation was this weekend in Lakewood, California...
. Dravet not only discovered Severe Myoclonic Epilepsy (Dravet Syndrome, which Jenelle does not have... this yet in any of my recent updates, but the Southern California Epilepsy Foundation is having a seminar in early April geared... 
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