[Clinical picture, pathogenesis and treatment of convulsive seizures in young children].

The author presents some literature which considers epilepsy as a chronic disorder. The disease is a dependent epileptization of secondary foci from the primary ones and related to this phenomena, there is a stage development of the epileptic disease. The report contains results of clinical, EEG, PEG and morphological studies in 617 children which were made during more than 10 years. Clinico-anatomical correlations permitted to detect a relation between the severity of seizures and the degree of the natal brain lesion. An original graphical representation of the initial forms and development of seizures in the newborn and infants is given. The author attempts to give a hypothetical explanation of the acute stage of the pathogenetical process of convulsive disease, based on some laws of electrodynamics.