Children with benign epilepsy with centrotemporal spikes (BECTS) show impaired attentional control: Evidence from an attentional capture paradigm

Epileptic Disorders

Volumn 9, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 32-38

  Deltour, Laetitia ^a   Barathon, Marion ^a   Quaglino, Véronique ^b   Vernier, Marie Pierre ^a   Despretz, Pascal ^c   Boucart, Muriel ^c   Berquin, Patrick ^a  

^a AMIENS UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (France)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE PICARDIE JULES VERNE   (France)

^c CNRS   (France)

Author keywords

BECTS; Childhood epilepsy; Distraction; Idiopathic epilepsy; Inhibition; Interference; Rolandic epilepsy

Indexed keywords

OXCARBAZEPINE; VALPROIC ACID;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ARTICLE; ATTENTION DISTURBANCE; BENIGN CHILDHOOD EPILEPSY; BENIGN CHILDHOOD EPILEPSY WITH CENTROTEMPORAL SPIKE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; FEMALE; GENERALIZED EPILEPSY; HUMAN; INTELLIGENCE QUOTIENT; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESPONSE TIME; SCHOOL CHILD; TASK PERFORMANCE;

ATTENTION; ATTENTION DEFICIT DISORDER WITH HYPERACTIVITY; CHILD; EPILEPSY, GENERALIZED; EPILEPSY, ROLANDIC; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; REACTION TIME;

EID: 33947145753     PISSN: 12949361     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1684/epd.2007.0066     Document Type: Article

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