Benign partial epilepsy in childhood: Selective cognitive deficits are related to the location of focal spikes determined by combined EEG/MEG

Epilepsia

Volumn 46, Issue 10, 2005, Pages 1661-1667

  Wolff, Markus ^a,c   Weiskopf, Nikolaus ^a   Serra, Emilio ^a   Preissl, Hubert ^a   Birbaumer, Niels ^a,b   Kraegeloh Mann, Ingeborg ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TRENTO   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Benign partial epilepsy; Cognitive deficits; Focal spikes; MEG; Neuropsychological testing

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BENIGN CHILDHOOD EPILEPSY; CHILD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COGNITIVE DEFECT; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTELLIGENCE QUOTIENT; LANGUAGE TEST; MAGNETOENCEPHALOGRAPHY; MALE; MOTOR PERFORMANCE; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPIKE; BRAIN MAPPING; COMPARATIVE STUDY; FOCAL EPILEPSY; METHODOLOGY; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; ROLANDIC EPILEPSY; STATISTICS;

BRAIN MAPPING; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; COGNITION DISORDERS; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EPILEPSIES, PARTIAL; EPILEPSY, ROLANDIC; FEMALE; HUMANS; MAGNETOENCEPHALOGRAPHY; MALE; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS;

EID: 27244432711     PISSN: 00139580     EISSN: 15281167     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1528-1167.2005.00255.x     Document Type: Article

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