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Childhood occipital visual epilepsy (COVE), formerly called idiopathic childhood occipital epilepsy-Gastaut type, is a rare epilepsy syndrome that begins in later childhood [1]. This syndrome is characterized by frequent brief focal aware sensory seizures with visual phenomena during wakefulness, often followed by headache with migraine-like features [1]. Photosensitive occipital lobe epilepsy (POLE), previously included in Gastaut syndrome, is characterized by photic-induced focal aware seizures with visual phenomena [1].