ABSTRACT
Juvenile myoclonic epilepsy (JME) is an idiopathic generalized epilepsy (IGE) syndrome that typically appears in the second decade of life. Herpin wrote the first detailed description of a patient with JME in 1867. In 1957, Janz and Christian published their article on 47 patients with ‘‘impulsive petit mal.’’ The term JMEwas introduced by Lund in 1975 and is the term currently recognized by the International League Against Epilepsy. The JME is estimated to account for 5-10% of all epilepsies.
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