Generalized Epilepsy and Febrile Seizures Syndrome

Abstract

A childhood-onset, genetic epilepsy syndrome, recently described in a single Australian family and characterized as “generalized epilepsy with febrile seizures plus” (GEFS+), is reported in an additional 63 patients from 9 families evaluated at the University of Melbourne, Australia.

Keywords

• febrile seizure
• self-limited epilepsies
• nonfebrile seizures