ABSTRACT

The incidence of newborn seizures is reported as 2-3% for term infants and as 10-15% for premature infants. Newborn seizures carry a special importance because they have different clinical and electroencephalographic (EEG) characteristics than childhood and adolescent seizures; nevertheless, many paroxysmal events are commonly reported by parents though most of them are usually not epileptic of origin. On the other hand, in the presence of a typical epileptic seizure, EEG findings may be normal or atypical. Numerous underlying disorders in this age group and prognostic influence of these disorders should also be underlined. In this paper, newborn seizures are discussed in four main groups as insidious seizures, clonic, tonic and myoclonic seizures.