Absence seizures in children and teenagers are generally considered relatively benign
because of their non-convulsive nature and the large incidence of remittance in early …

Genetic generalized epilepsy (GGE) syndromes start during childhood or adolescence, and
four commonly persist into adulthood, making up 15–20% of all cases of epilepsy in adults …

Background Childhood absence epilepsy, the most common pediatric epilepsy syndrome, is
usually treated with ethosuximide, valproic acid, or lamotrigine. The most efficacious and …

Purpose: Determine the optimal initial monotherapy for children with newly diagnosed
childhood absence epilepsy (CAE) based on 12 months of double‐blind therapy. Methods …

Purpose: Evidence for a poor psychiatric, social, and vocational adult outcome in childhood
absence epilepsy (CAE) suggests long‐term unmet mental health, social, and vocational …

Objective: To determine the neurocognitive deficits associated with newly diagnosed
untreated childhood absence epilepsy (CAE), develop a model describing the factorial …

Dysfunctional default mode network (DMN) has been observed in various mental disorders,
including epilepsy (see review Broyd et al.[2009]: Neurosci Biobehav Rev 33: 279–296) …

Objective: Children with epilepsy are at risk of specific cognitive deficits. We aimed to
compare and characterize the memory function of children with childhood absence epilepsy …

Purpose: Current treatments for epilepsy may control seizures, but have no known effects on
the underlying disease. We sought to determine whether early treatment in a model of …

This study evaluated the cognitive profiles of children with idiopathic generalized epilepsy
(IGE), uniformly treated with valproic acid with well-controlled seizures. Twenty-four were …