thesis
Diagnosis and Prognosis of Seizures and Epilepsy in Childhood: Dutch study of epilepsy in childhood
- Publication date
- 5 June 2008
- Publisher
- Many people suffer from one or more epileptic seizures during life, but not all
these people have epilepsy. Moreover, epilepsy is not one disease or syndrome,
but a collection of different disorders, which have in common the repeated occurrence
of unprovoked epileptic seizures during some time in life.There are many
genetically determined and acquired causes of epilepsy. The symptomatology of
the seizures can be very different. Also the course in time of epilepsies is very
diverging. The cause, symptoms, signs and course are influenced to a great deal
by age. Therefore, the epilepsies in childhood and in adulthood differ in many
aspects. For this reason, children and adults should not be mixed in studies on
epilepsy.