High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! In neurology and pediatrics, benign rolandic epilepsy or benign (childhood) epilepsy with centrotemporal (EEG) spikes (also known as sylvian seizures) is the most common epilepsy syndrome in childhood. Most children will outgrow the syndrome (it starts around the age of 3-13 with a peak around 8–9 years and stops around age 14-18), hence the label benign. The seizures start around the central sulcus of the brain (also called the centrotemporal area, located around the Rolandic fissure, after Luigi Rolando).