Long-Term Outcome of Juvenile Myoclonic Epilepsy

Abstract

All patients developing juvenile myoclonic epilepsy (JME) by 16 years of age in Nova Scotia between 1977 and 1985 were contacted in 2006-2008 to determine long-term seizure and social outcome, in a study at Dalhousie University, Halifax, Canada.

Keywords

• juvenile myoclonic epilepsy
• satisfactory health
• friendships