BENIGN EPILEPTIC SYNDROMES OF CHILDHOOD

M. Gazdik, E. Paučić-Kirinčić, M. Križ

Benign epilepsies of childhood are age dependent, with distinct clinical and EEG- characteristics, with no pathologic substrate, and spontaneous recovery without intellectual deficit. The paradygmatic example of theese epileptic syndromes is the benign epilepsy with centrotemporal spikes ("rolandic epilepsy"), benign epilepsy with affective symptomatology, and benign eplepsy with occipital paroxysms. The more uncommon forms (autosomal dominant nocturnal familial lobe epilepsy, benign familial neonatal seizures, benign epilepsies with extreme somatosensory evoked potentials, benign focal epilepsy in adolescents, and some other types) have to be better investigated, to accurate their better classification, inheritance patterns and pathophysiology, and the mode of their drug treatment.