HEAD-Study Optimizing the Treatment of Children With BECTS

Exclusion Criteria

• •1. Other forms of epilepsy (e.g. continuous spikes and waves during slow sleep \[CSWS\], Landau-Kleffner-syndrome)
• •2. Preceding treatment with antiepileptic drugs
• •3. Mental Retardation (intelligence quotient \[IQ\] \<85)
• •4. Focal neurological deficit
• •5. Relevant major internistic disease (e.g. hepatopathy, nephropathy, endocrinopathy)
• •6. Participation in another clinical trial within the last 30 days