Enhancement and bilateral synchronization of ripples in atypical benign epilepsy of childhood with centrotemporal spikes

Benign epilepsy in childhood with centrotemporal spikes (BECTS), or Rolandic epilepsy is the most common childhood epilepsy syndrome, and it is often described clinically as "benign" drug-sensitive epilepsy (Fejerman, 2008). The seizures occur during sleep in most children. Atypical clinical presentations of BECTS have been reported in some patients (Fejerman, 2009). One such presentation includes frequent drug-resistant seizures (Datta, 2007) that could result in permanent learning and behavioral disabilities (Hahn, 2001; Uliel-Sibony, 2015); this presentation is termed "atypical forms" of BECTS (ABECTS, atypical Rolandic epilepsy; Fejerman 2009).

https://ift.tt/2m0abGp