Epilepsy A to Z
Epilepsy syndromes
Some children with epilepsy are diagnosed with a particular epilepsy syndrome. Identifying a syndrome can help to understand the epilepsy and its likely pattern and effect. There are many different types of syndrome including:
- Aicardi’s syndrome
- Angelmans syndrome
- Benign Epilepsy of Childhood with Occipital Paroxysms (BECOP)
- Benign Myoclonic Epilepsy in Infancy
- Benign Rolandic Epilepsy
- Childhood Absence Epilepsy
- Early Myoclonic Encephalopathy
- Epilepsy with myoclonic absences
- Electrical status epilepticus during slow-wave sleep (ESESS)
- Infantile spasms
- Juvenile Myoclonic Epilepsy
- Landau Klefner syndrome
- Lennox Gastaut syndrome
- Myoclonic Astatic Epilepsy
- Otahara syndrome
- Panayiotopoulos syndrome
- Ramsay Hunt syndrome
- Rasmussen syndrome
- Rett syndrome
- Severe Myoclonic Epilepsy in Infancy (SMEI)
- Sturge-weber syndrome
- West syndrome
Please call our Helpline on 0808 800 2200 for more information on the different epilepsy syndromes.