Reading performance in children with rolandic epilepsy correlates with nocturnal epileptiform activity, but not with epileptiform activity while awake

Epilepsy and Behavior

Volumn 22, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 518-522

  Ebus, S C M ^a   Overvliet, G M ^a,b,c   Arends, J B A M ^a   Aldenkamp, A P ^a,b,c  

^a EPILEPSY CENTER KEMPENHAEGHE   (Netherlands)

^b MAASTRICHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^c MAASTRICHT UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Benign focal epilepsy; Cognition; Electroencephalography; Epileptiform activity; Language; Reading; Rolandic epilepsy; Spike; Verbal IQ

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CHILD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; EPILEPSY; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTELLIGENCE; INTELLIGENCE QUOTIENT; MALE; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; NOCTURNAL SEIZURE; READING; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; ROLANDIC EPILEPSY; SCHOOL CHILD; WAKEFULNESS;

ACHIEVEMENT; BRAIN WAVES; CHILD; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; DYSLEXIA; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EPILEPSY, ROLANDIC; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTELLIGENCE; MALE; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC;

EID: 80055006004     PISSN: 15255050     EISSN: 15255069     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.yebeh.2011.08.008     Document Type: Article

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