On screen, a baby waves her arms and gurgles happily, then tenses, scrunches her eyes shut, and clutches her tiny fingers together. Her arm jerks to one side, stiffens, and finally relaxes. She cries. Then the shaking starts again.
“I just wanted to hold her,” says Susan Axelrod, her voice intense as she recalls the film shown at a recent conference on epilepsy.
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