Combined EEG and MEG study of rolandic discharges in benign childhood epilepsy

Abstract: IntroductionBenign rolandic epilepsy of childhood (BREC) isone of the most frequent epileptic syndromes inchildren. Clinically the syndrome is characterized byfacial motor seizures sometimes preceded by asomatosensory aura, speech arrest and bysecondarily generalized tonic-clonic seizures duringsleep. The prognosis is excellent and most patientsbecome seizure-free by the age of 15 year [10, 11].Interictal spikes show a stereotypical morphologywith a negative sharp wave following by...