Table 1

Electro-clinical syndromes in paediatric age according to age at onset

A) Neonatal period:

< 44 weeks of gestational age

BFNE

EME

Ohtahara syndrome

B) Infancy:

< 1 year

Epilepsy of infancy with migrating focal seizures

West syndrome

MEI

Benign infantile epilepsy

Benign familial infantile epilepsy

Dravet syndrome

Myoclonic encephalopathy in non progressive disorders

FS+ (can start in childhood)

C) Childhood:

1-12 years

FS+ (can start in infancy)

PS

Epilepsy with myoclonic atonic (previously astatic) seizures

BCECTS

ADNFLE

Late onset childhood occipital epilepsy (Gastaut type)

Epilepsy with myoclonic absences

Lennox-Gastaut syndrome

CSWS

LKS

CAE

D) Adolescence:

12-18 years

JAE

JME

Epilepsy with generalized tonic-clonic seizures alone

Familial focal epilepsy with variable foci (childhood to adult)

Reflex epilepsies

BFNE: Benign familial neonatal epilepsy; EME: Early myoclonic encephalopathy; MEI: Myoclonic epilepsy in infancy; FS+: Febrile seizures plus; PS: Panayiotopoulos syndrome; BCECTS: Benign epilepsy with centrotemporal spikes; ADNFLE: Autosomal-dominant nocturnal frontal lobe epilepsy; CSWS: Epileptic encephalopathy with continuous spike-and-wave

during sleep; LKS: Landau-Kleffner syndrome; CAE: Childhood absence epilepsy; JAE: Juvenile absence epilepsy; JME: Juvenile myoclonic epilepsy.

Parisi et al. Italian Journal of Pediatrics 2011 37:58   doi:10.1186/1824-7288-37-58