Cognitive deficits in children with benign rolandic epilepsy of childhood or rolandic discharges: A study of children between 4 and 7 years of age with and without seizures compared with healthy controls

Epilepsy and Behavior

Volumn 16, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 646-651

  Danielsson, Julia ^a   Petermann, Franz ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BREMEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Benign rolandic epilepsy; Cognitive development; Memory deficits; Preschool children; Receptive language; Rolandic discharges

Indexed keywords

ANTICONVULSIVE AGENT; SULTIAME; VALPROIC ACID;

AMNESIA; ARTICLE; AUDITORY MEMORY; BENIGN CHILDHOOD EPILEPSY; CHILD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COGNITIVE DEFECT; COMPREHENSION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; INTELLIGENCE QUOTIENT; LANGUAGE ABILITY; MALE; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; NONVERBAL COMMUNICATION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SCORING SYSTEM; SEIZURE; SPEECH ARTICULATION; VERBAL COMMUNICATION; VISUAL MEMORY;

CHILD; CHILD DEVELOPMENT; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; COGNITION DISORDERS; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EPILEPSY, ROLANDIC; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTELLIGENCE TESTS; MALE; MEMORY DISORDERS; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; SEIZURES; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC;

EID: 70449522891     PISSN: 15255050     EISSN: 15255069     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.yebeh.2009.08.012     Document Type: Article

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