Can sodium valproate improve learning in children with epileptiform bursts but without clinical seizures?

Developmental Medicine and Child Neurology

Volumn 42, Issue 11, 2000, Pages 751-755

  Ronen, Gabriel M ^a,b   Richards, Joanne E ^a   Cunningham, Charles ^a   Secord, Margaret ^a   Rosenbloom, David ^a  

^a MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b HAMILTON HEALTH SCIENCES   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTICONVULSIVE AGENT; VALPROIC ACID;

ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR DISORDER; CHILD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; COGNITIVE DEFECT; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROSSOVER PROCEDURE; DOSE RESPONSE; DOUBLE BLIND PROCEDURE; EPILEPTIC DISCHARGE; FEMALE; HUMAN; LEARNING; MALE; MENTAL PERFORMANCE; PATIENT COMPLIANCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; SEIZURE; TREATMENT FAILURE;

ANTICONVULSANTS; ATTENTION; CHILD; CHILD BEHAVIOR DISORDERS; CROSS-OVER STUDIES; DOUBLE-BLIND METHOD; EPILEPSY; FEMALE; HUMANS; LEARNING DISORDERS; MALE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VALPROIC ACID;

EID: 0033708432     PISSN: 00121622     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0012162200001390     Document Type: Article

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