While adult patients experience a reduction of symptoms through vagus nerve stimulation, pediatric patients seem to respond well to a special high-fat, low-protein, low carbohydrate diet which supposedly controls the characteristic disruption of brain wave activity.
Its idiopathic variety generally manifests its symptoms during childhood, and it can be treated by drugs such as phenobarbital and carbamazepine. While adult patients experience a reduction of symptoms through vagus nerve stimulation, pediatric patients seem to respond well to a special high-fat, low-protein, low carbohydrate diet which supposedly controls the characteristic disruption of brain wave activity. For 10 points, name this neurological disorder involving "grand mal" or "petit mal" seizures.
Its idiopathic variety generally manifests its symptoms during childhood, and it can be treated by drugs such as phenobarbital and carbamazepine.
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