A rare and reversible complication of a convulsive syndrome: generalized hypotonia and disturbances of intelectual capacity

A case of transitory hypotonic syndrome with disturbances of the intelectual capacity is reported. The syndrome developed during the course of epileptic seizures in a child one year old. The physiopathogenic interpretation of clinical and electroencephalographic signs is attempted on the light of the present knowledge of some reticular formation disfunctions and their bioelectric significance.