Language dysfunction in children with Rolandic epilepsy

Neuropediatrics

Volumn 29, Issue 5, 1998, Pages 242-248

  Staden, Ute ^a,b,c,d   Isaacs, E ^a,b   Boyd, S G ^a,b   Brandl, U ^c   Neville, B G R ^a,b  

^a GREAT ORMOND STREET HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c HUMBOLDT UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^d NONE   (Germany)

Author keywords

Language dysfunction; Neurophysiological assessment; Rolandic epilepsy

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; AUDITORY DISCRIMINATION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; FEMALE; FOCAL EPILEPSY; HUMAN; INTELLIGENCE QUOTIENT; LANGUAGE DISABILITY; MALE; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; PRIORITY JOURNAL; READING; VERBAL MEMORY;

ADOLESCENT; ARTICULATION DISORDERS; CHILD; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EPILEPSY, ROLANDIC; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTELLIGENCE TESTS; LANGUAGE DISORDERS; LANGUAGE TESTS; LEARNING DISORDERS; MALE; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS;

EID: 0031688671     PISSN: 0174304X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1055/s-2007-973569     Document Type: Article

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