'Learning difficulties in children with epilepsy with idiopathic generalized epilepsy and well-controlled seizures' [1]

Developmental Medicine and Child Neurology

Volumn 49, Issue 11, 2007, Pages 874-

  Prassouli, Alexia ^a,b   Katsarou, Eustathia ^c   Attilakos, Achilleas ^a   Antoniadou, Ioanna ^a  

^a AGHIA SOPHIA CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (Greece)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

^c TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

VALPROIC ACID;

AUDITORY MEMORY; CHILD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE CONTROL; DISEASE DURATION; FEMALE; GENERALIZED EPILEPSY; HUMAN; LEARNING DISORDER; LETTER; MALE; MENTAL PERFORMANCE; MONOTHERAPY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCORING SYSTEM; SEIZURE;

CHILD; COGNITION DISORDERS; EPILEPSY, GENERALIZED; FEMALE; HUMANS; LEARNING DISORDERS; MALE; MEMORY DISORDERS; SEIZURES; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX;

EID: 35649017613     PISSN: 00121622     EISSN: 14698749     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1469-8749.2007.00874.x     Document Type: Letter

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