Altered EEG spectral activity and attentional behavioral deficits following prolonged febrile seizures: A pilot study

Epileptic Disorders

Volumn 11, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 10-19

  Lippé, Sarah ^a,b   Roy, Marie Sylvie ^b   Arcand, Claudine ^a,b   Scantlebury, Morris H ^c   Carmant, Lionel ^a,b   Lassonde, Maryse ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MONTREAL   (Canada)

^c ALBERT EINSTEIN COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Cognition; Coherence analysis; Development; Febrile seizure; Spectral density; Visual evoked potentials

Indexed keywords

ACHENBACH CHILD BEHAVIOR CHECK LIST; ARTICLE; ATTENTION DEFICIT DISORDER; CHILD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COGNITIVE DEVELOPMENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE SEVERITY; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EVOKED VISUAL RESPONSE; FEBRILE CONVULSION; HUMAN; INFANT; INHERITANCE; NAMED INVENTORIES, QUESTIONNAIRES AND RATING SCALES; PILOT STUDY; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCHOOL CHILD; SPECTROMETRY; STANFORD-BINET INTELLIGENCE SCALE;

ATTENTION; BRAIN; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; COGNITION; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EVOKED POTENTIALS, VISUAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT BEHAVIOR; INTELLIGENCE; MALE; PILOT PROJECTS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; QUESTIONNAIRES; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SEIZURES, FEBRILE; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 65349092771     PISSN: 12949361     EISSN: 19506945     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1684/epd.2009.0246     Document Type: Article

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