Do sequential EEG changes predict atypical clinical features in rolandic epilepsy?

Developmental Medicine and Child Neurology

Volumn 54, Issue 10, 2012, Pages 912-917

  Kanemura, Hideaki ^a   Sano, Fumikazu ^a   Aoyagi, Kakuro ^a   Sugita, Kanji ^a   Aihara, Masao ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF YAMANASHI   (Japan)

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Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ATTENTION DEFICIT DISORDER; BEHAVIOR DISORDER; CHILD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL FEATURE; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; FEMALE; FRONTAL GYRUS; HUMAN; MALE; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; ROLANDIC EPILEPSY; SPIKE; WECHSLER INTELLIGENCE SCALE;

ACTION POTENTIALS; CHILD; CHILD BEHAVIOR DISORDERS; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; COGNITION DISORDERS; COMORBIDITY; DISEASE PROGRESSION; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EPILEPSIES, PARTIAL; EPILEPSY, ROLANDIC; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PROGNOSIS; PSYCHOMETRICS; RISK FACTORS; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; WECHSLER SCALES;

EID: 84866359565     PISSN: 00121622     EISSN: 14698749     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1469-8749.2012.04358.x     Document Type: Article

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