[Classification of clinico-electroencephalographic syndromes in epilepsy in the developmental age]

Abstract

The author describes the clinical-electroencephalographic classification of eleven syndromes of epilepsy in developmental age used by himself, based on verification of 3613 successive patients aged from 0 to 18 years who were treated in the years 1970-1976 and followed up for 5 years in the Poznań Epilepsy Treatment Centre. On the ground of clinical status (seizures and neuropsychiatric findings) and serial EEG records 2746 patients (76%) could have been classified into these epilepsy types. The practical aim of the classification was identification of the focus and circuit of the seizure at a given structural-functional level or organization of the developing brain for guided comprehensive therapy.