**Author details**

#### Alexey Kholin

carnitine deficiency). Peptidergic nootropic therapy in cerebral palsy associated with epilepsy

• The presence of epilepsy aggravates the clinical course of cerebral palsy, complicates the rehabilitation, affects the prognosis of motor and intellectual functions, and could be

• Frequent combination of epileptic and non-epileptic paroxysms, as well as possible similarity of their kinematics, causes difficulty in their interpretation and differential diagnosis. • Video-EEG monitoring as a "golden standard" for differential diagnostic of epileptic and non-epileptic events is very useful for investigation of patients with cerebral palsy. Sleep EEG is very important for detection of epileptiform discharges especially in children with

• Treatment of epilepsy in combination with cerebral palsy strictly requires an individual approach due to the form of epilepsy, seizure types, age of the patient, comorbidity, and

• The presence of epilepsy is not a contraindication for rehabilitation and nootropic treatment. But we need to use methods with minimal risk of possibility for aggravation of sei-

I would like to express my special thanks to the Director of Academy of the Developmental Medicine in Slovenia Professor Milivoj Velickovic Perat, to the Head of the Department of Neurology, Neurosurgery, and Medical Genetics of Pirogov Russian National Research Medical University Professor Nikolay Nikolaevich Zavadenko, to the Head of the Department of Psychoneurology N2 of Russian Children Clinical Hospital doctor Elena Stepanovna Il'ina,

• Epilepsy is non-rare condition in patients with spastic forms of cerebral palsy.

also demonstrated its efficiency and safety [14].

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**3. Conclusions**

life-threatening.

CSWS or ESES pattern.

**Acknowledgements**

and to all my colleagues.

**Conflict of interest**

No conflict of interest.

somatic and mental condition of the patient.

zures and epileptiform discharges.

Address all correspondence to: drkholin@mail.ru

Department of Neurology, Neurosurgery and Medical Genetics of Pediatric Faculty, Pirogov Russian National Research Medical University, Moscow, Russia
