Psychosocial problems and seizure-related factors in children with epilepsy

Developmental Medicine and Child Neurology

Volumn 48, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 213-219

  Høie, Bjorg ^a,d   Sommerfelt, K ^b   Waaler, P E ^b   Alsaker, F D ^c   Skeidsvoll, H ^b   Mykletun, A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERGEN   (Norway)

^b HAUKELAND UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Norway)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

^d ULLEVÅL UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Norway)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTICONVULSIVE AGENT;

ABSENCE; ADOLESCENT; ARTICLE; CHILD; COGNITION; COMPLEX PARTIAL SEIZURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; EPILEPSY; FEMALE; FOCAL EPILEPSY; GENERALIZED EPILEPSY; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MOTHER; MYOCLONUS SEIZURE; ONSET AGE; PATIENT CARE; POPULATION RESEARCH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOSOCIAL CARE; PSYCHOSOCIAL DISORDER; RATING SCALE; RISK ASSESSMENT; SEIZURE; SELF REPORT; SEX DIFFERENCE; SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY; SOCIOECONOMICS; TEACHER; TONIC CLONIC SEIZURE; UNSPECIFIED SIDE EFFECT; BEHAVIOR DISORDER; BRAIN; COGNITIVE DEFECT; DEMOGRAPHY; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; MOOD DISORDER; OBSERVER VARIATION; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PREVALENCE; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; PSYCHOLOGY; PSYCHOMETRY; QUESTIONNAIRE; REPRODUCIBILITY; SEX RATIO; WECHSLER INTELLIGENCE SCALE;

ADOLESCENT; ANTICONVULSANTS; BRAIN; CHILD; CHILD BEHAVIOR DISORDERS; COGNITION DISORDERS; DEMOGRAPHY; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EPILEPSY; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MOOD DISORDERS; OBSERVER VARIATION; PREVALENCE; PSYCHOLOGY; PSYCHOMETRICS; QUESTIONNAIRES; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SEX DISTRIBUTION; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; WECHSLER SCALES;

EID: 33645729052     PISSN: 00121622     EISSN: 14698749     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0012162206000454     Document Type: Article

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