Rather than ascribing multiple different names to marginally different phenotypes, the term Dravet syndrome is now preferred to describe the group of severe infantile onset epilepsies (OMIM #607208, #182389, #604403) associated with mutations in SCN1A (OMIM *182389).SCN1A-related seizure disorders can be inherited in an autosomal dominant manner but most are due to de novo mutations. This evidence concerns the gene SCN1A and epilepsy.