Benign occipital epilepsy

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Benign occipital epilepsy

Benign occipital epilepsy is a rare genetic neurological disorder characterized by visual seizures and occipital epileptiform paroxysms reactive to ocular opening which present in infancy to mid-adolescence. Vomiting tonic eye deviation and impairment of consciousness are typically associated with the Panayiotopoulos type while visual hallucinations ictal blindness and post-ictal headache are commonly observed in the Gastaut type. Electroencephalographic findings in both types are similar and include bilateral synchronous high voltage spike-wave complexes in a normal background activity located predominantly in the occipital lobes.

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