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