juvenile myoclonic epilepsy
The most common hereditary idiopathic generalized epilepsy syndrome and is characterized by myoclonic jerks of the upper limbs on awakening, generalized tonic-clonic seizures manifesting during adolescence and triggered by sleep deprivation, alcohol intake, and cognitive activities, and typical absence seizures (30% of cases).
MONDO:0000415
adolescence-adult electroclinical syndrome
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MONDO:0005395
movement disorder
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MONDO:0017704
familial partial epilepsy
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MONDO:0100030
obsolete adolescent/adult-onset epilepsy syndrome (obsolete MONDO:0100030)
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MONDO:0100577
myoclonic epilepsy
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MONDO:0800487
variable-age onset idiopathic generalized epilepsy syndrome
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JME
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epilepsy, myoclonic juvenile
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juvenile myoclonus epilepsy
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myoclonic epilepsy, juvenile
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myoclonic epilepsy, juvenile, 1
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myoclonic epilepsy, juvenile, susceptibility to, 1
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petit mal, impulsive
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