The relationship between sleep and epilepsy: the effect on cognitive functioning in children

Developmental Medicine and Child Neurology

Volumn 52, Issue 9, 2010, Pages 805-810

  Parisi, Pasquale ^a   Bruni, Oliviero ^b   Pia Villa, Maria ^a   Verrotti, Alberto ^c   Miano, Silvia ^a   Luchetti, Anna ^a   Curatolo, Paolo ^d  

^a SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

^b SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CHIETI   (Italy)

^d UNIVERSITY OF ROME TOR VERGATA   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTICONVULSIVE AGENT; CARBAMAZEPINE; CLOBAZAM; ETIRACETAM; GABAPENTIN; LAMOTRIGINE; MELATONIN; NITRAZEPAM; OXCARBAZEPINE; PHENOBARBITAL; PHENYTOIN; PREGABALIN; RAMELTEON; RUFINAMIDE; TIAGABINE; TOPIRAMATE; VALPROIC ACID; ZONISAMIDE;

ACADEMIC FAILURE; ACTIMETRY; BENIGN CHILDHOOD EPILEPSY; CHILD; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; CLINICAL TRIAL; COGNITION; DECLARATIVE MEMORY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DRUG EFFECT; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; EMOTIONALITY; EPILEPSY; EPILEPTIC DISCHARGE; EPILEPTIC FOCUS; FRONTAL LOBE EPILEPSY; HORMONE BLOOD LEVEL; HUMAN; INTELLIGENCE QUOTIENT; LANDAU KLEFFNER SYNDROME; LEARNING; LEARNING DISORDER; LENNOX GASTAUT SYNDROME; MEDLINE; MEMORY; MEMORY CONSOLIDATION; MENTAL DEFICIENCY; NERVE CELL NETWORK; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NEUROCHEMISTRY; NEUROPHYSIOLOGICAL RECRUITMENT; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; NIGHTMARE; NONREM SLEEP; OSCILLATION; PARASOMNIA; PERIODIC LIMB MOVEMENT DISORDER; POLYSOMNOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROCEDURAL MEMORY; PROGNOSIS; QUESTIONNAIRE; RESTLESS LEGS SYNDROME; REVIEW; SEIZURE; SLEEP; SLEEP APNEA SYNDROME; SLEEP DEPRIVATION; SLEEP WALKING; SLOW WAVE SLEEP; TEMPORAL LOBE EPILEPSY; BRAIN; DRUG EFFECTS; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOLOGY;

BRAIN; CHILD; COGNITION; EPILEPSY; HUMANS; SLEEP;

EID: 77955749659     PISSN: 00121622     EISSN: 14698749     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1469-8749.2010.03662.x     Document Type: Review

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