
Pediatric Epilepsy Syndromes & Conditions We Treat
Our epilepsy team cares for children with any and all forms of epilepsy. Some specific epilepsy conditions we treat are listed below.
Epilepsy Syndromes:
- Childhood absence epilepsy
- Doose syndrome: Myoclonic astatic epilepsy
- Dravet syndrome: Severe myoclonic epilepsy of infancy (SMEI)
- Electrical status epilepticus during slow-wave sleep (ESES)
- Epileptic encephalopathies
- Epileptic encephalopathy with continuous spike and wave during sleep (CSWS)
- Frontal lobe epilepsy
- Infantile spasms: West syndrome or epileptic spasms
- Jeavon’s syndome
- Juvenile absence epilepsy
- Juvenile myoclonic epilepsy
- Landau-Kleffner syndrome
- Lennox-Gastaut syndrome (LGS)
- Metabolic syndromes
- Mitochondrial disorders
- Ohtahara syndrome
- Panayiotopoulos syndrome
- Progressive myoclonic epilepsies
- Rasmussen’s syndrome and other immuno-causative epilepsies
Epilepsy Secondary to Genetic Variants:
- Angelman syndrome
- CDKL5
- Chromosomal abnormalities
- Epilepsy of infancy with migrating focal seizures
- Fragile X
- Glut-1 deficiency syndrome (SLC2A1)
- KCNQ2
- KCNT1
- PCDH19
- Rett syndrome
- SCN1A
- SCN2A
- SCN8A
- Sturge-Weber syndrome
Epilepsy Secondary To:
- Congenital brain malformations
- Cortical dysplasia
- Hypothalamic hamartoma
- Hypoxic ischemic injury
- Mesial temporal sclerosis (MTS)
- Strokes
- Trauma
- Tuberous sclerosis complex
- Tumors