Neonatal Seizures

Neonatal seizures are the most common neurological emergency in the newborn and a marker of underlying brain dysfunction rather than a disease in themselves. Because the immature brain seizes differently from the older child, recognition is difficult, the EEG is the gold standard, and treatment is urgent — uncontrolled seizures worsen the very brain injury that caused them. A neonatal seizure is a paroxysmal alter…