This is usually a benign syndrome of childhood epilepsy.
Children with benign occipital epilepsy have partial seizures characterised by:
There is a subgroup of patients who have resistant epilepsy and cognitive impairment. Some of these children have lesions in the occipital cortex.
The EEG shows sharp and slow wave activity which is suppressed by eye opening.
NICE suggest first-line drugs for this condition are carbamazepine, lamotrigine, oxcarbazepine or sodium valproate (1).
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