Description: Doctors face special challenges when treating children with epilepsy because of the limited data available to help determine the best use of medications for children of different ages with various types of epilepsy. Recently, however, progress has been made in understanding the use of antiepileptic drugs (AEDs) for treating neonatal seizures and infantile spasms, seizure disorders that occur in the first year of life. The effectiveness of AEDs in treating these conditions has been controversial, and predicting the outcome of these disorders for each child has been difficult, so this kind of progress is welcome.