CDKL5 gene-related epileptic encephalopathy: Electroclinical findings in the first year of life

Developmental Medicine and Child Neurology

Volumn 53, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 354-360

  Melani, Federico ^a   Mei, Davide ^a   Pisano, Tiziana ^a   Savasta, Salvatore ^b   Franzoni, Emilio ^c   Ferrari, Anna Rita ^d   Marini, Carla ^a   Guerrini, Renzo ^a,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORENCE   (Italy)

^b FONDAZIONE IRCCS POLICLINICO SAN MATTEO   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BOLOGNA   (Italy)

^d DEPARTMENT OF DEVELOPMENTAL NEUROSCIENCE   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CYCLIN DEPENDENT KINASE 5;

ARTICLE; BRAIN DISEASE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EARLY DIAGNOSIS; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EPILEPSY; FEMALE; GENE DELETION; GENE MUTATION; HUMAN; INFANT; MALE; MYOCLONUS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TONIC CLONIC SEIZURE; VIBRATION;

BRAIN WAVES; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; DEVELOPMENTAL DISABILITIES; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; MALE; MENTAL RETARDATION; MUTATION; PROTEIN-SERINE-THREONINE KINASES; SPASMS, INFANTILE;

EID: 79952586788     PISSN: 00121622     EISSN: 14698749     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1469-8749.2010.03889.x     Document Type: Article

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