Mickey Mouse neurology. Neurological disorders in children visiting central Florida

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.