Myoclonic epilepsy in children

Myoclonic epilepsy, or LennoX syndrome, is an age-related cryptogenic or symptomatic generalized epilepsy syndrome, a type of age-dependent epileptic encephalopathy, also known as small Minor motor seizures, Lennox-Gastaut syndrome, minor seizure variants, blink-nod-fall episodes, myoclonoastatischel petit mal, etc. Gibbs recorded the symptoms in 1938, but considered a type of pediatric epilepsy, which belongs to the small-onset variant. It is characterized by early onset age, onset in early childhood, various forms of attacks, difficult treatment, and affected intellectual development. Lennox studied and reported the EEG changes of this disease in detail from 1945 to 1960, and Gastaut further studied the relationship between clinical manifestations and EEG in 1966, and considered it to be an independent disease. Age-determined epilepsy encephalopathy is a special type of epilepsy with significant age specificity. It consists of three types: early-infantile epileptic encephalopathy with suppressive spread, West syndrome, and Lennox syndrome. The three are closely related, and they transition in order with age: neonatal epilepsy encephalopathy rarr; West syndrome rarr; Lennox syndrome.

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