Seizure syndrome idiopathic

Idiopathic epilepsies These syndromes are thought to be due to genetic alterations, but the underlying etiology is not identified. Neurologic functions are completely normal apart from the occurrence of seizures. 

A complete description of a patient s epilepsy should include the seizure type with the epilepsy or syndrome type (i.e., idiopathic, symptomatic, or cryptogenic). 

Febrile seizures Idiopathic Lennox-Gastaut syndrome Absence seizures (petit mal)... 

Primary epilepsy When no specific anatomic cause for the seizure, such as trauma or neoplasm, is evident the syndrome is called idiopathic or primary epilepsy. These seizures may be produced by an inherited abnormality in the central nervous system (CNS). Patients are treated chronically with antiepileptic drugs, often for life. 

Clues on the physiological role of neuronal nicotinic receptors come from the identification of a form of human epilepsy that can be caused by mutations in either the a4 or the J32 nicotinic subunits. This rare syndrome, autosomal dominant nocturnal frontal lobe epilepsy (ADNFLE), was the first idiopathic epilepsy to be identified as a monogenic disorder (244), and consists of seizures that occur during light... 

Valproic acid is the drug of choice for myoclonic seizures in juvenile myoclonic epilepsy, in which myoclonic seizures often coexist with tonic-clonic and absence seizures. No trials have examined any of the newly introduced drugs for patients with juvenile myoclonic epilepsy or other idiopathic generalized epilepsy syndromes. 

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