Advances in epilepsy and intellectual disability

Journal/Book: Curr Opin Psychiatry. 1997; 10: 2-6 Boundary Row, London, England SE1 8NH. Rapid Science Publishers. 360-364.

Abstract: The combination of structural and functional brain imaging and molecular genetics has revealed new entities, especially in the group of cerebral dysgenesia leading to epilepsy and intellectual disability. Current knowledge of the epidemiology, aetiology, treatment, and prognosis of patients with epilepsy and intellectual disability is discussed.

Note: Article Iivanainen M, Univ Helsinki, Sch Med, Hosp Children & Adolescents, Unit Child Neurol, Lastenlinnantie 2, FIN-00250 Helsinki, FINLAND

Keyword(s): MENTAL-RETARDATION; RASMUSSENS ENCEPHALITIS; INFANTILE SPASMS; ACTIVE EPILEPSY; DOWN-SYNDROME; DRUG-THERAPY; CHILDREN; HYPOMETABOLISM; SEIZURES; ONSET

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