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Childhood Epilepsy with Occipital Paroxysms:Variants

2001; Pediatric Neurology Briefs Publishers; Volume: 15; Issue: 2 Linguagem: Inglês

10.15844/pedneurbriefs-15-2-4

2166-6482

J Gordon Millichap,

Metabolism and Genetic Disorders

mechanisms.Sleep deprivation, usually associated with stress and fatigue, is a frequent trigger in patients with temporal lobe epilepsy whereas sleep predisposes to extratemporal and especially frontal lobe nocturnal epilepsy.Cryptogenic generalized epilepsies are less susceptible to the effects of sleep deprivation.Numerous reflex epilepsy syndromes are described in children.These include epilepsy induced by "Soroban," a Japanese calculator; reading epilepsy, graphogenic, arithmetic, cards and game playing, piano, Nintendo and Rubik's cube epilepsy.Both mental activity under psychological tension and movements of fingers are involved in the induction of seizures in susceptible patients.(See