Effect of Seizures on the Developing Brain and Cognition

Seminars in Pediatric Neurology

Volumn 23, Issue 2, 2016, Pages 120-126

  Holmes, Gregory L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VERMONT COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FLUROTHYL; SODIUM CHANNEL NAV1.1;

BRAIN DEVELOPMENT; COGNITIVE DEFECT; COMORBIDITY; EARLY LIFE SEIZURE; EPILEPTIC STATE; FEBRILE CONVULSION; GENE MUTATION; GENERALIZED EPILEPSY; GENETIC MODEL; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMAN; INFANTILE SPASM; MEMORY DISORDER; NONHUMAN; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; REVIEW; SEIZURE; SEVERE MYOCLONIC EPILEPSY IN INFANCY; SOCIAL COGNITION; SYNAPTOGENESIS; TEMPORAL LOBE EPILEPSY; ANIMAL; BRAIN; COMPLICATION; DISEASE MODEL; EPILEPSY; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY;

ANIMALS; BRAIN; COGNITIVE DYSFUNCTION; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; EPILEPSY; HUMANS;

EID: 84979306939     PISSN: 10719091     EISSN: 15580776     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.spen.2016.05.001     Document Type: Review

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