Epilepsy is the most common neurological disorder in adolescence. The convulsive disorders may conveniently be divided into epilepsy beginning before adolescence and epilepsy arising during adolescence. Juvenile myoclonic epilepsy typically begins in early adolescence with a peak of onset between 13 and 15 years of age. Primary generalized epilepsy namely the juvenile absence epilepsy is an age-related onset usually at puberty is a distinct syndrome from childhood absence epilepsy. Established temporal lobe epilepsy may be increasingly complicated by behavioural disorders in adolescence and should be distinguished from genuine seizures pattern. 1, 14, 15 Increase in seizure frequency beginning immediately before.
