"Gourmand syndrome" in a child with pharmacoresistant epilepsy

Epilepsy and Behavior

Volumn 13, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 413-415

  Kurian, M ^a   Schmitt Mechelke, T ^b   Korff, C ^a   Delavelle, J ^a   Landis, T ^a   Seeck, M ^a  

^a GENEVA UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS   (Switzerland)

^b CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Eating disorder; Epilepsy; Gourmand syndrome; Lesion; Magnetic resonance imaging; Obesity; Right hemisphere

Indexed keywords

ANTICONVULSIVE AGENT;

ARTICLE; BRAIN DAMAGE; BRAIN HEMORRHAGE; CASE REPORT; EATING DISORDER; EATING HABIT; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; EPILEPSY; FOOD PREFERENCE; GOURMAND SYNDROME; HUMAN; INCREASED APPETITE; MALE; MEMORY DISORDER; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; PARIETAL LOBE; RIGHT HEMISPHERE; SCHOOL CHILD; SEPSIS; STREPTOCOCCUS INFECTION; TEMPORAL LOBE;

ANTICONVULSANTS; APPETITE; CEREBRAL HEMORRHAGE; CHILD; DOMINANCE, CEREBRAL; DRUG RESISTANCE; EATING DISORDERS; EPILEPSY; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; HUMANS; MALE; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; PARIETAL LOBE; TEMPORAL LOBE;

EID: 45649085570     PISSN: 15255050     EISSN: 15255069     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.yebeh.2008.04.004     Document Type: Article

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