The role of epilepsy in early language development in a child with a congenital lesion in the right hemisphere

Developmental Medicine and Child Neurology

Volumn 50, Issue 11, 2008, Pages 870-875

  Mayor Dubois, C ^a   Maeder Ingvar, M ^a   Deonna, T ^a   Roulet Perez, Eliane ^a  

^a LAUSANNE UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBAMAZEPINE; VALPROIC ACID; VIGABATRIN;

ARTICLE; BRAIN MALFORMATION; CASE REPORT; CEREBRAL ARTERY DISEASE; CHILD CARE; COMPREHENSION; DISEASE SEVERITY; DRUG RESPONSE; DRUG SUBSTITUTION; DRUG WITHDRAWAL; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EPILEPSY; FOCAL EPILEPSY; HEMIPARESIS; HUMAN; HYPSARRHYTHMIA; IMAGE ANALYSIS; INFANTILE SPASM; IRRITABILITY; LANGUAGE DISABILITY; MALE; MIDDLE CEREBRAL ARTERY; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; ONSET AGE; PRENATAL INJURY; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SLEEP DISORDER; TONIC SEIZURE;

ANTICONVULSANTS; BRAIN; CHILD; COGNITION DISORDERS; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EPILEPSY; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; INFANT; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT DISORDERS; MALE; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; VALPROIC ACID;

EID: 54249143056     PISSN: 00121622     EISSN: 14698749     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1469-8749.2008.03162.x     Document Type: Article

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