Progressive Myoclonic Epilepsies

A heterogeneous group of primarily familial EPILEPSY disorders characterized by myoclonic seizures, tonic-clonic seizures, ataxia, progressive intellectual deterioration, and neuronal degeneration. These include LAFORA DISEASE; MERRF SYNDROME; NEURONAL CEROID-LIPOFUSCINOSIS; sialidosis (see MUCOLIPIDOSES), and UNVERRICHT-LUNDBORG SYNDROME.

Also Known As:

Progressive Myoclonic Epilepsy; Epilepsy, Progressive Myoclonic; Dentatorubral-Pallidoluysian Atrophy; Myoclonic Epilepsies, Progressive; Ataxia, Chorea, Seizures, And Dementia; Atypical Inclusion-Body Disease; Familial Progressive Myoclonic Epilepsy; Haw River Syndrome; Myoclonic Epilepsy, Progressive; Myoclonus-Nephropathy Syndrome; Naito Oyanagi Disease; Naito-Oyanagi Disease; Progressive Myoclonus Epilepsies; Action Myoclonus Renal Failure Syndrome; Atrophies, Dentatorubral-Pallidoluysian; Atrophy, Dentatorubral-Pallidoluysian; Atypical Inclusion Body Disease; Atypical Inclusion-Body Diseases; Biotin Responsive Encephalopathy; Biotin-Responsive Encephalopathies; Dentatorubral Pallidoluysian Atrophy; Dentatorubral-Pallidoluysian Atrophies; Encephalopathies, Biotin-Responsive; Encephalopathy, Biotin-Responsive; Epilepsies, Progressive Myoclonic; Epilepsies, Progressive Myoclonus; Epilepsy, Progressive Myoclonus; Haw River Syndromes; Inclusion-Body Disease, Atypical; Inclusion-Body Diseases, Atypical; May White Syndrome; Myoclonus Epilepsies, Progressive; Myoclonus Nephropathy Syndrome; Myoclonus-Nephropathy Syndromes; Naito-Oyanagi Diseases; Progressive Myoclonus Epilepsy; River Syndromes, Haw; Syndromes, Myoclonus-Nephropathy; Action Myoclonus-Renal Failure Syndrome; Biotin-Responsive Encephalopathy; May-White Syndrome

Nervous System Diseases: 14737
- Central Nervous System Diseases: 4371
  - Brain Diseases: 16141
    - Epilepsy: 38749
      - Generalized Epilepsy: 907
        Myoclonic Epilepsies: 1240
        Progressive Myoclonic Epilepsies: 441
      - Epileptic Syndromes: 899
        Myoclonic Epilepsies: 1240
        Progressive Myoclonic Epilepsies: 441

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