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  • Disease with characteristics of seizures that are resistant to treatment and begin in infancy. Development is impaired most children have severe intellectual disability and little or no speech. Common features include stereotypies, bruxism, disrupted sleep, feeding difficulties and gastrointestinal problems. Some individuals have distinctive facial features including a high and broad forehead, large and deep-set eyes, a well-defined philtrum, high palate. Microcephaly, scoliosis and tapered fingers have also been reported. Caused by mutations in the CDKL5 gene, which disrupts brain development. Inherited in an X-linked dominant pattern. The CDKL5 gene is located on the X chromosome however almost all cases of this condition result from de novo mutations in the CDKL5 gene.
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