Community‐Based Study of Lennox‐Gastaut Syndrome

Summary: Purpose: Before 1986, the spectrum of childhood epilepsies, including Lennox‐Gastaut syndrome (LGS) and Doose syndrome (DS), known collectively as “epilepsia myoclonica astatica”, was believed to represent a single disease. More recently, some investigators have considered these syndromes to be parts of a continuum. To clarify these theories, neurobiologic factors of the syndromes were studied to determine which qualities were shared and which were unique.

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