Epilepsy of Puberty

Epilepsy of puberty is a type of epilepsy that occurs in children and adolescents under the influence of certain medical, emotional, physical or chemical factors during the final formation of the reproductive system. During the development of the disease, changes in the composition of neurons are preceded by metabolic disorders of the nervous tissue or disturbances in the trophism of nerve cells of various origins and associated disturbances in their structure.

The triad of symptoms common to all types of epileptic seizures (pain in the focus of epileptic activity, convulsive contractions with maximum severity on the face and screams, vegetative storm) are, as a rule, not observed. However, specific epileptic seizures of this type retain an important feature called syndromic quality. In most patients, attacks begin during sleep or immediately upon awakening. Mandatory epileptic seizures in EPS include minor seizures; most often they occur in the form of clonic, less often myoclonic contractions of the muscles of the face, head or torso. During an attack, paroxysmal twitching and movements in the limbs, especially the hands, are observed. Spastic