Not all myoclonic jerking and tonic posturing in the neonate is epilepsy

J Pediatr. 2014 Mar;164(3):664.e1. doi: 10.1016/j.jpeds.2013.10.073. Epub 2013 Dec 12.
No abstract available

Publication types

  • Case Reports
  • Video-Audio Media

MeSH terms

  • Anticonvulsants / therapeutic use
  • Clonazepam / therapeutic use
  • Consanguinity
  • Diagnosis, Differential
  • Electroencephalography
  • Epilepsy / diagnosis
  • Exons
  • Gene Deletion
  • Humans
  • Infant, Newborn
  • Male
  • Myoclonus / etiology*
  • Receptors, Glycine / genetics
  • Stiff-Person Syndrome / diagnosis*
  • Stiff-Person Syndrome / drug therapy
  • Stiff-Person Syndrome / genetics

Substances

  • Anticonvulsants
  • Receptors, Glycine
  • Clonazepam