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During young adulthood the epileptic activity began to decrease, but complete remission did not occur. Electroencephalography showed progressive slowing of the background activity with relatively scanty epileptiform activity. Out of four ictal recordings the paroxysmal activity was initiated focally in two cases. Clonazepam and sodium valproate had some antiepileptic effect, clonazepam being the more beneficial of the two. Mental development, which was originally normal, began to deteriorate two to five years after the onset of epilepsy, and the deterioration continued during adulthood in spite of good epilepsy control, leading to mental retardation by middle age. The pathogenesis of the disorder, called the Northern epilepsy syndrome, is unknown. 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