Benign childhood epilepsy with centrotemporal spikes: Word and pseudoword discrimination

Arquivos de Neuro-Psiquiatria

Volumn 67, Issue 2 B, 2009, Pages 450-456

  Fonseca, Lineu Corrêa ^a,c   Tedrus, Glória Maria A S ^a   De Oliveira, Eder Donizetti Peres ^b   Ximenes, Valeria Lopes ^b  

^a PONTIFÍCIA UNIVERSIDADE CATÓLICA DE CAMPINAS   (Brazil)

^b Fund de Amparo A Pesquisa do Estado de S Paulo FAPESP (The State of Sao Paulo Research Foundation)   (Brazil)

^c NONE   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Benign childhood epilepsy with centrotemporal spikes; Cognition; EEG; Epileptiform activity; Reading; Rolandic epilepsy

Indexed keywords

ACADEMIC ACHIEVEMENT; ARTICLE; BENIGN CHILDHOOD EPILEPSY; CHILD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DECISION MAKING; EPILEPTIC DISCHARGE; HUMAN; READING; VISUAL DISCRIMINATION; WORD RECOGNITION; WRITING;

EID: 68049099276     PISSN: 0004282X     EISSN: 16784227     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1590/S0004-282X2009000300015     Document Type: Article

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