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2006-09-07 05:02:37 · 2 answers · asked by Elennie P 2 in Health Diseases & Conditions Other - Diseases

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Benign Rolandic Epilepsy is an epilepsy syndrome. It is called 'benign' because it has a good outcome - nearly all children with it will outgrow it during puberty - and 'rolandic' because it is in the part of the brain called the rolandic area that the seizures begin. It is classified as a partial seizure because only this one part of the brain is involved.

Rolandic Epilepsy is probably one of the commonest forms of epilepsy in children. It is considered a benign epilepsy syndrome, in the sense that it doesn't usually cause any serious brain damage and the vast majority of affected children outgrow it, usually during puberty.

It is called rolandic epilepsy because the fits start with overactivity around the "rolandic fissure", a central part of the brain nowadays called the central sulcus.

2006-09-07 10:08:18 · answer #1 · answered by the last ninja 6 · 2 0

http://www.epilepsy.org.uk/info/benign.html

2006-09-07 12:03:38 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0 0

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