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Medical condition

Myoclonic epilepsy
Specialty	Neurology

Myoclonic epilepsy refers to a family of epilepsies which present with myoclonus.

They are divided into two main families:

Basics

Management

Focal	Seizures Simple partial Complex partial Gelastic seizure Epilepsy Temporal lobe epilepsy Frontal lobe epilepsy Rolandic epilepsy Sleep-related hypermotor epilepsy Panayiotopoulos syndrome Vertiginous epilepsy
Generalised	Tonic–clonic Absence seizure Atonic seizure Automatism Benign familial neonatal seizures Lennox–Gastaut syndrome Myoclonic astatic epilepsy Epileptic spasms Febrile seizure
Status epilepticus	Epilepsia partialis continua Complex partial status epilepticus
Myoclonic epilepsy	Progressive myoclonus epilepsy Dentatorubral–pallidoluysian atrophy Unverricht–Lundborg disease MERRF syndrome Lafora disease Early myoclonic encephalopathy Juvenile myoclonic epilepsy

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