Abstract

The prevalence of epilepsy and seizure types among 10-year-old children in metropolitan Atlanta were ascertained from EEG laboratories and other sources and reported from the Centers for Public Health Research, Battelle; Division of Birth Defects, Center for Disease Control and Prevention; and Children’s Epilepsy Center, Scottish Rite Children’s Medical Center, Atlanta, GA.

Highlights

  • The authors suggest that this combination of asymmetric and/or asynchronous infantile spasms, partial motor seizures involving the same side of the body, and contralateral central region pathology may represent a previously undescribed and unique subset of symptomatic age-specific localization-related infantile epilepsy

  • The findings support the hypothesis that infantile spasms are generated by the cerebral cortex and the primary sensorimotor cortex is involved in asymmetric and asynchronous spasms

  • The prevalence of epilepsy and seizure types among 10-year-old children in metropolitan Atlanta were ascertained from EEG laboratories and other sources and reported from the Centers for Public Health Research, Battelle; Division of Birth Defects, Center for Disease Control and Prevention; and Children's Epilepsy Center, Scottish Rite Children's Medical Center, Atlanta, GA

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Introduction

The prevalence of epilepsy and seizure types among 10-year-old children in metropolitan Atlanta were ascertained from EEG laboratories and other sources and reported from the Centers for Public Health Research, Battelle; Division of Birth Defects, Center for Disease Control and Prevention; and Children's Epilepsy Center, Scottish Rite Children's Medical Center, Atlanta, GA. The authors suggest that this combination of asymmetric and/or asynchronous infantile spasms, partial motor seizures involving the same side of the body, and contralateral central region pathology may represent a previously undescribed and unique subset of symptomatic age-specific localization-related infantile epilepsy. The findings support the hypothesis that infantile spasms are generated by the cerebral cortex and the primary sensorimotor cortex is involved in asymmetric and asynchronous spasms.

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