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The education of neurologists on the syndrome of juvenile myoclonic epilepsy (JME) has been one of the major successes in the treatment of epilepsy. For a long time, the original author to whom this condition is eponymously linked, as well as other experts, conceived of JME as a lifelong condition in which seizure relapse upon drug discontinuation is invariable. This report by Senf et al. on a group of 66 patients with JME followed for a mean of 44.6 years gives a reappraisal of several aspects of the condition.1
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