West’s Syndrome Research Update – Dr. Miguel Cortez
West’s Syndrome May Be Preventable. West’s syndrome is a childhood epileptic syndrome. It leads to uncontrolled seizures (known as ‘infantile spasms’), abnormal brain wave activity between seizures (referred to as ‘hypsarrhythmia’) as measured by EEG recordings and intellectual disability in four out of five children. It usually has its onset in the first year of…