Limited role for routine EEG in the assessment of staring in children with autism spectrum disorder

Archives of Disease in Childhood

Volumn 100, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 30-33

  Hughes, Rebecca ^a   Poon, Wai Yan ^a   Harvey, A Simon ^a,b  

^a ROYAL CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALIMEMAZINE TARTRATE; ANTICONVULSIVE AGENT; PSYCHOTROPIC AGENT;

ADOLESCENT; ARTICLE; ASPERGER SYNDROME; AUTISM; CHILD; CHILDHOOD ABSENCE EPILEPSY; DROWSINESS; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; FEMALE; HAND; HUMAN; HYPERVENTILATION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; RECORDING; SPIKE WAVE; TEMPORAL LOBE; TEMPORAL LOBE EPILEPSY; VIDEORECORDING; CHILD DEVELOPMENT DISORDERS, PERVASIVE; COMPLICATION; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EPILEPSY; INFANT; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PROCEDURES; SEIZURES;

ADOLESCENT; CHILD; CHILD DEVELOPMENT DISORDERS, PERVASIVE; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EPILEPSY; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; MALE; SEIZURES;

EID: 84919421271     PISSN: 00039888     EISSN: 14682044     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/archdischild-2014-306400     Document Type: Article

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