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West Syndrome

Known as: Lightning spasms, Attacks, Lightning, Attack, Lightning 
An epileptic syndrome characterized by the triad of infantile spasms, hypsarrhythmia, and arrest of psychomotor development at seizure onset. The… 
National Institutes of Health

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ARX geneBenign Infantile Myoclonic EpilepsyEpilepsyEpilepsy, Myoclonic, Infantile

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Cryptogenic Infantile SpasmsEPILEPTIC ENCEPHALOPATHY, EARLY INFANTILE, 1EPILEPTIC ENCEPHALOPATHY, EARLY INFANTILE, 2Early myoclonic encephalopathy

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Highly Cited
2007
Highly Cited
2007
Safe and Effective Use of the Ketogenic Diet in Children with Epilepsy and Mitochondrial Respiratory Chain Complex Defects
Review
2002
Review
2002
Tropical Review: Zonisamide in Pediatric Epilepsy: Review of the Japanese Experience
Zonisamide is a novel anticonvulsant that is structurally and mechanistically unique, compared with other antiepilepsy drugs… 
Review
2001
Review
2001
Clinical pharmacology and therapeutic use of the new antiepileptic drugs
Although older generation antiepileptic drugs (AEDs) such as carbamazepine, phenytoin and valproic acid continue to be widely… 
Review
1998
Review
1998
Surgical treatment of epilepsy in children.
Highly Cited
1994
Highly Cited
1994
Lamotrigine in infantile spasms
Highly Cited
1992
Highly Cited
1992
Valproate Metabolites in Serum and Urine During Antiepileptic Therapy in Children with Infantile Spasms: Abnormal Metabolite Pattern Associated with Reversible Hepatotoxicity
Summary: The purpose of this study was to identify abnormal metabolite patterns of valproate (VPA) as possible early indicators… 
Review
1984
Review
1984
Krabbe's Disease: Clinical Presentation of Neurological Variants
Neurological variants in clinical presentation of Krabbe's disease, the infantile and the late-onset (late infantile-juvenile… 
Highly Cited
1983
Highly Cited
1983
Childhood Epilepsy in a German City
The incidence of epilepsy in children between 0 up to 8 years in the city of Kiel in Northern Germany was calculated. The study… 
Highly Cited
1976
Highly Cited
1976
The tuberous sclerosis syndrome: clinical and EEG studies in 100 children.
The evolution of the early clinical and EEG features in 100 children who developed the tuberous sclerosis syndrome is discussed… 
Highly Cited
1975
Highly Cited
1975
Sodium Valproate in the Treatment of Intractable Childhood Epilepsy
Sodium valproate has been used, in combination with a variety of standard anticonvulsant drugs, to treat 24 children with… 
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