Juvenile Myoclonic Epilepsy (JME)
- It is the most common generalized epilepsy syndrome of childhood, occurs in healthy adolescents.
With one or more of the following seizure types:
- Myoclonic jerks (most frequent in the morning, within the first hour after awakening).
- Absence seizures (“typical” petit mal seizures that often precede the other seizures).
- Generalized tonic-clonic seizures, which also tend to occur upon awakening.
Treatment
Seizures are usually controlled with a broad-spectrum antiseizure medication.