Open AccessJeavons syndrome – updated review
Author(s) -
Athanasios Covanis
Publication year - 2015
Publication title -
journal of epileptology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2299-9728
pISSN - 2300-0147
DOI - 10.1515/joepi-2015-0033
Subject(s) - idiopathic generalized epilepsy , differential diagnosis , medicine , epilepsy syndromes , generalized epilepsy , etiology , epilepsy , pediatrics , concordance , juvenile myoclonic epilepsy , electroencephalography , dermatology , psychiatry , pathology
. Eyelid myoclonia and absences (ELMA) was first described by Jeavons in 1977 as a separate type of photosensitive epilepsy