Clinical evaluation of attentional processes in children with benign childhood epilepsy with centrotemporal spikes (BCECTS)

Epileptic Disorders

Volumn 9, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 424-431

  Deltour, Laëtitia ^a   Quaglino, Véronique ^b   Barathon, Marion ^a   De Broca, Alain ^a   Berquin, Patrick ^a  

^a AMIENS UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (France)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE PICARDIE JULES VERNE   (France)

Author keywords

Attention; Benign childhood epilepsy with centrotemporal spikes; Cognitive development; Executive functions; Rolandic epilepsy

Indexed keywords

ANTICONVULSIVE AGENT; CARBAMAZEPINE; GABAPENTIN; OXCARBAZEPINE; VALPROIC ACID;

ARTICLE; ATTENTION; ATTENTION DISTURBANCE; BENIGN CHILDHOOD EPILEPSY WITH CENTROTEMPORAL SPIKE; CHILD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL EVALUATION; CLINICAL PRACTICE; COGNITIVE DEVELOPMENT; DIAGNOSTIC TEST; DISEASE DURATION; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; FEMALE; FULL SCALE INTELLIGENCE QUOTIENT; GENERALIZED EPILEPSY; HUMAN; INTELLIGENCE QUOTIENT; MALE; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; ONSET AGE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANK SUM TEST; TASK PERFORMANCE;

AGE OF ONSET; ANTICONVULSANTS; ATTENTION; CHILD; COGNITION; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EPILEPSY, ROLANDIC; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; MALE; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; REACTION TIME;

EID: 38349168945     PISSN: 12949361     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1684/epd.2007.0127     Document Type: Article

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