Epilepsy Research and Treatment

Review Article

Diagnosis and Management of Epileptic Encephalopathies in Children

Table 1

Epileptic encephalopathies.
Recognized syndromes 
 Ohtahara syndrome 
 Early myoclonic encephalopathy 
 West syndrome 
 Dravet syndrome 
 Lennox-Gastaut syndrome  
 Epileptic encephalopathy with continuous spike-and-wave during sleep (CSWS) 
 Landau-Kleffner syndrome (LKS) 
Proposed 
 Epilepsy of infancy with migrating focal seizures [15, 16] 
 Late infantile epileptic encephalopathy [35] 
 Atypical benign partial epilepsy of childhood [36] 
 Hypothalamic epilepsy [37] 
 Myoclonic encephalopathy in nonprogressive disorders [38]