Christopher Pickering

University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust, Birmingham, UK

Syncope and non-epileptic att acks can mimic a seizure in older children, as can reflex asystolic syncope and breath-holding att acks in younger children. Accurate description of an episode, or bett er, videorecording of it, helps specialists to determine the nature of an episode.

Epilepsy: recognition and management of seizures in children and young people

‘Epilepsy describes a tendency to have seizures, where a sudden surge in brain activity manifests as abnormal behaviour patterns….There are many different seizure types and so appropriate...

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