Kurzer Abriss der Epilepsien und epileptischen Syndrome des Kindesalters

The classification of seizures, epilepsies and epileptic syndromes is complicated and unsatisfying. It is unknown by which mechanisms a person with a disposition to cerebral seizures will develop an epilepsy. The fact that the same child with a stable, non-progressive lesion, for example a cortical dysplasia, will show at different ages totally different types of seizures, with the consequence to classify this very same child to aged dependent different epileptic syndromes did not lead to a better understanding of the ILAE classification system. It was the wish of the editors to give a short cut paper on the whole spectrum of childhood epilepsies and epileptic syndromes to the reader.