Benign infantile seizures (non-familial).

An ictal EEG of a seizure in an 8-week-old baby who, at this age, had three focal seizures of right-sided convulsions involving the face and upper limbs (This is case 17.2 in reference ⁶⁵). Brain MRI was normal The inter-ictal EEG was normal. Subsequent EEGs were normal and treatment stopped at age 10 months. He was well until age 7 years when he started having Rolandic seizures and later developed epilepsy with continuous spike and wave during slow wave sleep (see Figure 7.12). The arrows mark the onset and termination of the seizure. Note the ictal EEG onset with focal left-sided fast spikes of low amplitude.