title: Mickey Mouse neurology. Neurological disorders in children visiting central Florida.
abstract: Seizures are the most common cause of pediatric neurological admissions in children visiting central Florida. In approximately 50%, seizures are brief, generalized and associated with fever. Most of the afebrile seizures leading to hospitalization occur in children not previously recognized as having a seizure disorder. Sleep-associated seizures ("benign epilepsy of childhood," rolandic seizures) may be recognized more easily during vacations when children often share a hotel room with parents or fall asleep in the family car.
authors.affiliation: Arnold Palmer Hospital for Children and Women, Orlando.
authors.forename: M M
authors.initials: MM
authors.lastname: Farrell
authors.forename: M A
authors.initials: MA
authors.lastname: Pollack
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D002648:Child; D002675:Child, Preschool; D005431:Florida / Q000453:epidemiology; D006801:Humans; D007223:Infant; D012189:Retrospective Studies; D012640:Seizures / Q000453:epidemiology*; D014195:Travel