Epileptiform EEG abnormalities in children with language regression

Neurology

Volumn 65, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 129-131

  McVicar, Kathryn A ^a,b   Ballaban Gil, K ^a   Rapin, I ^a   Moshe S L ^a   Shinnar, S ^a  

^a ALBERT EINSTEIN COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b MONTEFIORE MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; AUTISM; CHILD; DEVELOPMENTAL DISORDER; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; EPILEPSY; FEMALE; HUMAN; LANGUAGE DISABILITY; LANGUAGE REGRESSION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PATIENT MONITORING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEIZURE; SYNDROME DELINEATION;

ACTION POTENTIALS; AGE OF ONSET; AUTISTIC DISORDER; CEREBRAL CORTEX; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; DISEASE PROGRESSION; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EPILEPSY; FEMALE; HUMANS; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT DISORDERS; MALE; MONITORING, PHYSIOLOGIC; POLYSOMNOGRAPHY; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PROGNOSIS; REGRESSION (PSYCHOLOGY); RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SEX FACTORS;

EID: 22044446411     PISSN: 00283878     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1212/01.wnl.0000167193.53817.0f     Document Type: Article

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