Against the current trend of using two terms of West syndrome and infantile spasms
indiscriminately and interchangeably in world literature, the editor adopted a different
principle throughout the Proceedings, with a collaboration of all contributors. The
principle adopted is to use the two terms differentially: that is, infantile spasms
represent a special kind of seizure type which is characteristically observed in a
clinical syndrome entity, the West syndrome.
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