Articles

Given the advances in diagnostics and classification, there is a need for updated information about the distribution of epileptic seizures, epilepsies, and etiologies in the general child population, and for studies comparing the new classifications to the old. To provide this type of knowledge, we have investigated childhood epilepsies in the Norwegian Mother and Child Cohort Study (MoBa).

This article provides insight into what it can mean to have epilepsy, and where the emphasis should be placed when kindergartens and schools make accommodations for children with epilepsy.

Children with epilepsy are at increased risk of other disorders and abstract difficulties, preceding, cooccurring with, or after the diagnosis of epilepsy.