Epilepsy syndrome

In genetic disorders epilepsy often is syndomatic. Genetic syndromes that include epilepsy are collected in this group.

Systematic

Hereditary neurological disorders
	Alzheimer disease
	Arts syndrome
	Ataxia-pancytopenia syndrome
	Autism
	Autosomal dominant cerebellar ataxia, deafness and narcolepsy
	Autosomal recessive spastic paraplegia type 44
	Brain malformations with urinary tract defects
	Brain small vessel disease with hemorrhage
	Brunner syndrome
	Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease
	Congenital insensitivity to pain with anhidrosis
	Epilepsy syndrome
		Isolated focal cortical dysplasia type 2
			MTOR
			TSC1
			TSC2
	Hereditary benign chorea
	Hereditary brain tumors
	Hereditary distal motor neuron neuropathy type 5A
	Hereditary muscle diseases
	Hereditary sensory and autonomic neuropathy type 2A
	Hereditary sensory neuropathy type 1E
	Hypokalemic periodic paralysis 1
	Hypomyelinating Leukodystrophy 2
	Idiopathic basal ganglia calcification 1
	Intellectual disability-severe speech delay-mild dysmorphism syndrome
	Migraine
	Nemaline myopathy 5
	Porencephaly
	Rett syndrome
	Severe neonatal-onset encephalopathy with microcephaly
	Spastic paraplegia 17 with amyotrophy of hands and feet
	Susceptibility to glioma
	Tuberous sclerosis complex
	Vascular dementia
	X-linked syndromic mental retardation 13

References:

1.	None (2011) Presenilin-1 mutation Alzheimer's disease: a genetic epilepsy syndrome?

2.	None (2009) The concept of the epilepsy syndrome: how useful is it in clinical practice?

3.	Sadleir LG et al. (2015) Myoclonic occipital photosensitive epilepsy with dystonia (MOPED): A familial epilepsy syndrome.

4.	Pardo CA et al. (2014) Mechanisms of epileptogenesis in pediatric epileptic syndromes: Rasmussen encephalitis, infantile spasms, and febrile infection-related epilepsy syndrome (FIRES).

Update: June 23, 2025

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