ADHD as a risk factor for incident unprovoked seizures and epilepsy in children

Archives of General Psychiatry

Volumn 61, Issue 7, 2004, Pages 731-736

  Hesdorffer, Dale C ^a,b,c   Ludvigsson, Petur ^d   Olafsson, Elias ^a,d   Gudmundsson, Gunnar ^d   Kjartansson, Olafur ^d   Hauser, W Allen ^a,b  

^a Taub Institute for Research on Alzheimer's Disease and the Aging Brain and the Gertrude H Sergievsky Center   (United States)

^b Landspitalinn University Hospital ^*  (United States)

^c Physicians and Surgeons Unit 16 ^*  (United States)

^d LANDSPITALI UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Iceland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ARTICLE; ATTENTION DEFICIT DISORDER; CHILD; CHILDHOOD DISEASE; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; EPILEPSY; FEMALE; HUMAN; ICELAND; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; POPULATION RESEARCH; PREVALENCE; RISK FACTOR; SEIZURE; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

ATTENTION DEFICIT DISORDER WITH HYPERACTIVITY; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; COMORBIDITY; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EPILEPSY; FEMALE; HUMANS; ICELAND; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; POPULATION SURVEILLANCE; PREVALENCE; PSYCHIATRIC STATUS RATING SCALES; RISK FACTORS; SEIZURES; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 3042819021     PISSN: 0003990X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/archpsyc.61.7.731     Document Type: Article

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