Drug Therapy & Epilepsy Syndromes
The epileptic encephalopathies (EE), also known as epilepsy syndromes, are severe seizure disorders that start in childhood. The seizures are often frequent and drug-resistant, and they are associated with progressive impairment of the child’s cognition. There are a number of different epileptic encephalopathies, including West Syndrome, Dravet Syndrome, Lennox-Gastaut Syndrome, Doose Syndrome and Landau-Kleffner Syndrome…