obsolete benign familial infantile seizures 6

A benign familial infantile epilepsy that is characterized by afebrile partial complex or generalized tonic-clonic seizures occurring between 3 and 12 months of age with a good response to medication and no neurologic sequelae and that has_material_basis_in mu

A benign familial infantile epilepsy that is characterized by afebrile partial complex or generalized tonic-clonic seizures occurring between 3 and 12 months of age with a good response to medication and no neurologic sequelae and that has_material_basis_in mutation in the CHRNA2 gene on chromosome 8p21.

Signs and symptoms

• Nocturnal seizures
• Shivering
• Atypical behavior
• Confusion
• Dystonia
• Neurodevelopmental abnormality

Also known as: Autosomal dominant nocturnal frontal lobe epilepsy; Benign Familial Infantile Seizures, 6; nocturnal frontal lobe epilepsy-4