When epilepsy interferes with word comprehension: Findings in Landau-Kleffner syndrome

Journal of Child Neurology

Volumn 23, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 97-101

  Castillo, Eduardo M ^a   Butler, Ian J ^a   Baumgartner, James E ^a   Passaro, Antony ^a   Papanicolaou, Andrew C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

Landau Kleffner syndrome; Language mapping; Magnetoencephalography

Indexed keywords

ANTICONVULSIVE AGENT;

ADOLESCENT; ARTICLE; BRAIN SURGERY; CASE REPORT; CHILD HEALTH; COMPREHENSION; DISEASE ACTIVITY; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EPILEPSY; EPILEPTIC DISCHARGE; FEMALE; HUMAN; KETOGENIC DIET; LANDAU KLEFFNER SYNDROME; MAGNETOENCEPHALOGRAPHY; NEUROIMAGING; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; WORD RECOGNITION;

ADAPTATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; ADOLESCENT; APHASIA, WERNICKE; BRAIN MAPPING; CEREBRAL CORTEX; CHILD; DOMINANCE, CEREBRAL; EPILEPSY; FEMALE; HUMANS; LANDAU-KLEFFNER SYNDROME; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT DISORDERS; MAGNETOENCEPHALOGRAPHY; NEURONAL PLASTICITY; RECOVERY OF FUNCTION; REGRESSION (PSYCHOLOGY); SPEECH PERCEPTION; TEMPORAL LOBE; VERBAL BEHAVIOR;

EID: 37449000628     PISSN: 08830738     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0883073807308701     Document Type: Article

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