Seizure Precipitants and Epilepsy Syndromes

Abstract

The prevalence of various seizure precipitants in relation to different epilepsy syndromes and patient age and gender was determined by a questionnaire survey of 400 patients attending (Dec 1998-May 1999) the Comprehensive Epilepsy Program, University of Virginia, Charlottesville.

Keywords

• febrile convulsions
• temporal lobe epilepsy
• cryptogenic generalized epilepsy