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Rolandic epilepsy

Abstract

Sylvie joelle

Benign Rolandic epilepsy or benign childhood epilepsy with centrotemporal spikes (BCECTS) is that the most typical epilepsy

Syndrome in childhood. Most kids will outgrow the syndrome (it starts around the age of 3–13 with a peak around 8–9 years and stops around age 14–18), hence the label benign. The seizures, sometimes mentioned as sylvian seizures, start around the fissure of Rolando of the brain (also called the centrotemporal area, located around the Rolandic fissure, after Luigi Rolando)