Benign adult familial myoclonic epilepsy

Benign adult familial myoclonic epilepsy (BAFME) is an inherited epileptic syndrome characterized by cortical hand tremors, myoclonic jerks and occasional generalized or focal seizures with a non-progressive or very slowly progressive disease course, and no signs of early dementia or cerebellar ataxia.

Blindness

Blindness is the condition of lacking visual perception defined as visual perception below 3/60 and/or a visual field of no greater than 10 degress in radius around central fixation.

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PMID (PMCID)
12027575	MIXED_SAMPLE	Adult
	Benign adult familial myoclonic epilepsy (BAFME) with night blindness.
	Manabe Y, Narai H, Warita H, Hayashi T, Shiro Y, Sakai K, Kashihara K, Shoji M, Abe K. Seizure. 2002;11(4):266-8.
	This is the first report of benign adult familial myoclonic epilepsy (BAFME) with night blindness.