<unk>  is characterized by the presence of<unk>  seizures. The<unk>  seizures are usually brief (about 4 to 30 seconds) but occur frequently, usually around a dozen per day but sometimes even hundreds of times per day. They involve abrupt impairment of consciousness with loss of awareness and responsiveness, behavioral arrest, and arrest of the activity that may vary from complete arrest to continuing the activity with an altered status.Other seizure features include starring, eyelid movement or eye-opening and pallor. Mild automatisms and mild movements at the beginning of the seizures are frequent, but major motor involvement, as atonic falls, early in the course of the disease exclude this diagnosis. The International League Against Epilepsy commission defined<unk>  seizure as “of sudden onset, interruption of ongoing activities, staring, possible upwards version of eyes with few seconds duration, associated with symmetrical 2–4 Hz, mainly 3 Hz spike-wave complexes, normal background activity”.<unk>  seizure was divided into two subgroups (Penry et al. 1975), first with consciousness impairment, and others were associated with the other clinical component, namely clonic, atonic, tonic, autonomic, and with automatisms. Though<unk>  usually occur in children with normal neurodevelopment and are sensitive to antiepileptic treatment, children with<unk>  have a risk of academic failure and high rates of attention deficits. Neuropsychological impairment There are few neuropsychological symptoms found in children with<unk> . These are executive dysfunction, attention problem, learning disabilities, and language problems. These problems even persist after seizures are treated. Many existing statistics illustrate that children with<unk>  present an average IQ. Instead of having average IQ children with<unk>  have subtle cognitive difficulties. Significant social difficulties often can be seen in<unk>  children with lower IQ. Occurrence of behavioral issues might be associated with significantly worse cognitive development. Some evidence depicted that there is impairment in verbal rather than nonverbal aspects in<unk>  children. Few authors described that the deficits were limited to the few areas of language like verbal fluency, particularly phonological and category fluency. Attention deficit and learning disability are frequently found in the<unk> .It can inhibit academic performance as well as day-to-day activities of the children.
Childhood absence epilepsy
Benign infantile epilepsy
Benign familial infantile epilepsy
Benign familial neonatal seizures
Northern epilepsy syndrome
Musicogenic epilepsy
Juvenile myoclonic epilepsy
Temporal lobe epilepsy