Some authors refer to the presence of personality disorders and behavioural abnormalities, but are no more specific. ... Many authors have commented at length on the severity of LGS and it remains, today, the most `resistant to treatment' of all the syndromes associated with `slow spike-wave' epilepsies. ... The literature discusses the morbidity of LGS at length, but no mention was found by this author about the causes or rates of mortality. ...

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