The story of Eric, a nine year old boy with several short episodes of blank stare in a day displays an example of Childhood Absence Epilepsy. His mother apparently had similar episodes in childhood.

As in absence SE, patients in complex partial ... forms an important part of the idiopathic localization-related childhood epilepsy spectrum, and which has a very good prognosis.

Absence status epilepticus Oral clobazam ... problematic identification NCSE is notoriously observed in various childhood epilepsy syndromes, encephalopathies and acute conditions Clear data ...

LOS ANGELES -- Low racial diversity has limited genome-wide association studies (GWAS) in epilepsy, researchers found, with ...

In more subtle cases, children may stare blankly or not respond to their surroundings. These are often referred to as absence ...