To sleep, perchance to speak: The search for epileptic language regression

Neurology

Volumn 65, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 11-12

  Trevathan, Edwin ^a,b  

^a ST LOUIS CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTICONVULSIVE AGENT;

APTITUDE TEST; AUTISM; CHILD; CHILD DEVELOPMENT; EDITORIAL; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; EPILEPTIC STATE; HUMAN; LANDAU KLEFFNER SYNDROME; LANGUAGE ABILITY; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT; PATIENT REFERRAL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SLEEP;

AUTISTIC DISORDER; BRAIN; CHILD; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EPILEPSY; HUMANS; LANGUAGE; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT DISORDERS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; REGRESSION (PSYCHOLOGY); SLEEP; VERBAL BEHAVIOR;

EID: 22044455458     PISSN: 00283878     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1212/01.wnl.0000171598.47352.20     Document Type: Editorial

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