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Table 4 EEG and epilepsy

From: Hemiplegic (unilateral) cerebral palsy in northern Stockholm: clinical assessment, brain imaging, EEG, epilepsy and aetiologic background factors

Nr.

Age at exam

Gender

Motor impairment

EEG findings

Other Events

Epilepsy

Seizure type

Debut at age

Active

Resolved at age

Seizure free with AED

1

14

Male

Right

Mild episodic abnormity

maximum left temporally

 

neonatal convulsions

focal seizures

2 years

treatment neonatally to 6 months

treatment from 2 to 3 years

2

8

Male

Left

Moderate generalized abnormality left dominance

 

 

3

11

Male

Left

Normal EEG

 

  

4

12

Male

Right

No study EEG.

Clinical EEG at seizures onset focal left epileptiform activity

 

Focal seizures

12 years

+

 

5

9

Male

Right

Normal EEG

 

 

6

12

Male

Right

mild generalized abnormality

 

 

7

10

Female

Right

Mild, mainly episodic bilateral abnormality right dominance

 

  

8

13

Female

Right

Normal EEG

 

 

9

10

Male

Left

Focal abnormality temporo-parieto-occipitally right. Bilateral reduced alpha-activity

Traffic accident at 1 year

Focal seizures

1 year

 

5 years

10

10

Female

Right

Normal EEG

 

focal seizures

>  12 years

2 years after study examination

 

11

10

Male

Right

Normal EEG

 

Short focal neonatal convulsions

 

12

15

Female

Left

Continuous generalized epileptiform discharges with right dominance

Right-sided hemispherectomi

generalized epilepsy

2 months

+

Resistant to AED

13

7

Male

Right

Normal EEG

 

Focal seizures

4 years

+

 

14

14

Female

Left

Normal EEG

 

  

15

11

Male

Right

Mild generalized abnormality with left dominance with sparse amount of epileptiform discharges left frontal and medial

 

Focal seizures

4 years

Seizure free with AED

16

9

Male

Right

Moderate amount of epileptiform discharges left hemisphere fronto-centrally and/or fronto-temporally

Head trauma at 6 months, epidural hematoma

Generalized seizures since trauma

+

AED therapy resistant

17

13

Male

Left

Normal EEG

 

  

18

9

Female

Right

Mild to moderate amount of generalized slow activity with slight left-sided dominance

 

  

19

15

Male

Right

Somewhat increased amount of slow activity over the left hemisphere. No distinct epileptiform activity.

 

Focal seizures

3 years.

 

No seizures since age 9 years with AED

20

12

Male

Left

Normal

 

  

21

12

Male

Right

Normal