Benign familial infantile convulsions.

Benign familial infantile convulsion is a syndrome recently identified amon g the epileptic seizures of infancy. The main characteristics are: occurren ce before one year of age, brief epileptic bursts of partial type seizures with secondary generalization, excellent prognosis with normal mental and m otor development, high familial incidence. This syndrome appears geneticall y heterogeneous. (C) 1999 Elsevier. Paris.