TY - JOUR T1 - Atoms JF - Archives of Disease in Childhood JO - Arch Dis Child SP - 205 LP - 205 VL - 91 IS - 3 AU - Howard Bauchner Y1 - 2006/03/01 UR - http://adc.bmj.com/content/91/3/205.2.abstract N2 - An old teacher of mine – a very distinguished neurologist – once related that after he and two colleagues observed a child having a “seizure” and they reviewed the EEG, there were three definitive opinions. One neurologist was certain that the child had seized, another was just as sure that the child had not, and the third was confident that he was uncertain. The misdiagnosis of epilepsy is explored in articles by Hindley and colleagues from Halliwell Children’s Centre, Uldall, et al from Copenhagen, and an accompanying perspective by CD Ferrie. Why is the diagnosis of epilepsy so complicated? Unfortunately, there is not a single definitive laboratory test, the differential is long, and epilepsy is not a single entity. These three articles are an important read, even more so, because of the recent events surrounding the practice of Dr Andrew Holton. See pages 206, 214 and 219 Thirteen authors have penned an important perspective on the shaken baby syndrome. All of the authors gave evidence in the Court of Appeal in London, in June 2005, in the … ER -