Association of Child Neurology-Indian Epilepsy Society Consensus Document on Parental Counseling of Children with Epilepsy.

When a child is diagnosed with epilepsy, counseling regarding the same is done by the treating doctor. Most parents are frightened and have poor knowledge about epilepsy. Therapeutic advice including drug dosage, administration and side effects takes up the major part of physician's time, thereby neglecting important issues like home seizure management, follow up and others.

Clinical Characteristics and Follow-up of South Indian Children with Autoimmune Encephalopathy.

Objective: To describe the clinical characteristics of a cohort of south Indian children with probable autoimmune encephalopathy from a tertiary care academic hospital and to compare this data with the existing literature.

Methods: Patients with encephalopathy plus one or more of neuropsychiatric symptoms, seizures, movement disorder or cognitive dysfunction were identified. Common infectious causes were excluded.