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Barakat-Perenthaler syndrome
Discoverers of very rare form of epilepsy now on track to treatment
Only 40 patients worldwide are known to have Barakat-Perenthaler syndrome, a severe untreatable form of epilepsy. Four years after discovering the disease, its Rotterdam namesakes are now on the trail of a treatment.