[Comparative clinico-pathophysiologic analysis of the characteristics of juvenile and late epilepsy].

Having in view the evolutional and ontogenetical traits of the bioelectrical brain activity and age types of the nervous system reactivity to endogenous and exagenous epileptic noxious factors, the authors compared the clinical and pathogenetical characteristics of an epileptic process in children and adults. Although there were several similar signs in children and late epilepsy, the authors opposed these forms on the basis of a different character in the type of development of the disease and changes in the cerebral electrogenesis, at the basis of which there lies the metabolic characteristics of a maturating and involutional brain. These regularities permitted to establish the diagnostical and prognostical criteria in respect to each separate form of the disease.