Staring Spells: Epileptic or Nonepileptic Events

J Gordon Millichap

doi:10.15844/pedneurbriefs-12-12-2

Staring Spells: Epileptic or Nonepileptic Events

Pediatric Neurology Briefs

Volume 12 (1998): Issue 12

By: J Gordon Millichap

Open Access

|Dec 1998

Abstract

A parental questionnaire containing 25 items to distinguish epileptic (absence seizures [AS]) and nonepileptic staring [NES] characteristics in 40 children presenting with staring spells was tested at the Cleveland Clinic, Ohio.

References

Rosenow F Wyllie E Kotagal P Mascha E Wolgamuth BR Hamer H Staring spells in children: descriptive features distinguishing epileptic and nonepileptic events J Pediatr 1998 Nov 133 5 660 663 10.1016/S0022-3476(98)70108-8 9821425
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Devinsky O Gordon E Epileptic seizures progressing into nonepileptic conversion seizures Neurology 1998 Nov 51 5 1293 1296 10.1212/WNL.51.5.1293 9818848
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Articles in this issue

DOI: https://doi.org/10.15844/pedneurbriefs-12-12-2 | Journal eISSN: 2166-6482

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Language: English

Page range: 90 - 91

Published on: Dec 1, 1998

Published by: Pediatric Neurology Briefs Publishers

In partnership with: Paradigm Publishing Services

Keywords:

Staring Spells,

Nonepileptic Staring Events,

Absence Epilepsy

© 1998 J Gordon Millichap, published by Pediatric Neurology Briefs Publishers
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Volume 12 (1998): Issue 12