A 20-year-old woman presented to a specialist epilepsy center with seizures, myoclonus, ataxia, and impaired executive functions. She was born to unrelated parents, had febrile seizures in infancy ...

in the management of patients with atypical juvenile myoclonic epilepsy (JME). The work highlights the importance of video-EEG in the correct evaluation of such patients, who might otherwise be ...

J Child Neurol. 2004;19(8):571-578. Patients with an isolated visually induced seizure in special circumstances, with or without a photoparoxysmal response on the EEG. This group comprises ...

Epilepsy is a condition that affects people ... An abrupt loss of muscular tone that results in a person collapsing or falling. - Myoclonic seizures: Shock-like, quick spasms in one or more ...

We found that mice lacking cystatin B develop myoclonic seizures and ataxia, similar to symptoms seen in the human disease. The principal cytopathology appears to be a loss of cerebellar granule ...

Jim Brennan and McKelvey Homes have raised more than $2.5 million in six years to support research for Dravet Syndrome, also known as Severe Myoclonic Epilepsy of Infancy (SMEI).

A seizure occurs when there is sudden abnormal electrical activity that temporarily interrupts normal brain function. Large groups of neurons fire at the same time like an electrical storm inside ...