Cognitive skills in children with intractable epilepsy: Comparison of surgical and nonsurgical candidates

Epilepsia

Volumn 43, Issue 6, 2002, Pages 631-637

  Smith, Mary Lou ^a,b   Elliott, Irene M ^a   Lach, Lucyna ^a  

^a HOSPITAL FOR SICK CHILDREN   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Academic skills; Attention; Childhood epilepsy; Intelligence; Memory

Indexed keywords

ANTICONVULSIVE AGENT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARITHMETIC; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; CHILD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COGNITION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COMPREHENSION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTELLIGENCE; INTELLIGENCE QUOTIENT; INTRACTABLE EPILEPSY; MALE; MONOTHERAPY; NEUROPSYCHOLOGY; ONSET AGE; PERFORMANCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; READING; TASK PERFORMANCE; VERBAL MEMORY; VISUAL MEMORY;

ADOLESCENT; AGE OF ONSET; ANTICONVULSANTS; ATTENTION; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; COGNITION DISORDERS; DRUG THERAPY, COMBINATION; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; EPILEPSY; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTELLIGENCE TESTS; MALE; MEMORY DISORDERS; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS;

EID: 0036285458     PISSN: 00139580     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1528-1157.2002.26101.x     Document Type: Article

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