Abstract
Absences have been regarded as an epileptic symptom since the 18th century [25]. Their clear delineation, however, was achieved later, by means of the EEG. The long and controversial discussion about their nature was settled when Jung [16] recorded spike-wave patterns accompanying pyknoleptic seizures. Moreover, catamnestic studies found that pyknoleptic absences of school-age children often later evolved into an epilepsy with grand mal attacks [13, 23].
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Doose, H., Baier, W.K. (1989). Absences. In: Beck-Mannagetta, G., Anderson, V.E., Doose, H., Janz, D. (eds) Genetics of the Epilepsies. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-95553-2_6
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