Doose syndrome or myoclonic-astatic epilepsy is a rare syndrome accounting for one to two percent of childhood epilepsies. A ketogenic diet, which is low in carbohydrates and high in fat, is an ...

Despite its rarity, NCSE is found in a wide variety of situations in childhood, some of which are described in detail below. For the sake of clarity, these conditions can be grouped in three separate ...

Jazz Pharmaceuticals Announces Initiation of Phase 3 Trial Evaluating Epidiolex®/Epidyolex® (cannabidiol) for Patients with Epilepsy with Myoclonic-Atonic Seizures ...

This is an epilepsy that is idiopathic and typically begins in children between 3 and 13 years of age. Most commonly it starts before onset of puberty. There are simple partial seizures that involve ...

Falls were frequent for Nathan Kalina — they’re the dangerous result of myoclonic astatic epilepsy. “Within a month after it started, he was up to 20 to 30 seizures a day. After that over a hundred,” ...

Epilepsy syndromes: What are the initial and add-on AEDs of choice in the treatment of the epilepsy syndromes with onset in childhood, for example, myoclonic-astatic epilepsy and Dravet syndrome?

Doose syndrome or myoclonic-astatic epilepsy is a rare syndrome accounting for one to two percent of childhood epilepsies. A ketogenic diet, which is low in carbohydrates and high in fat, is an ...