Benign familial neonatal epilepsy is a rare autosomal dominant epileptic syndrome characterised by frequent brief seizures within the first days of life.

Clinical features

  • Seizures mainly occur in full-term normal neonates following a normal pregnancy and delivery and without precipitating factors. Seizures are brief, of 1–2 min and may be as frequent as 20–30 per day.

    Electroencephalography

    Seizures usually start with tonic motor activity and posturing with apnoea followed by vocalisations, ocular symptoms, other autonomic features, motor automatisms, chewing and focal or generalised clonic movements[1][2][3]

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