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Titus, Jeffrey B.; Thio, Liu Lin – Psychology in the Schools, 2009
Epilepsy is one of the most common neurological disorders in children, and it has been associated with an increased risk of cognitive, psychiatric, and learning problems. Although side effects of antiepileptic drugs (AEDs) have been long studied in adults, an understanding of how they manifest in children is only beginning to emerge. Careful…
Descriptors: Learning Problems, Symptoms (Individual Disorders), Epilepsy, Drug Therapy
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McVicar, Kathryn A.; Shinnar, Shlomo – Mental Retardation and Developmental Disabilities Research Reviews, 2004
The Landau-Kleffner syndrome (LKS) and electrical status epilepticus in slow wave sleep (ESES) are rare childhood-onset epileptic encephalopathies in which loss of language skills occurs in the context of an epileptiform EEG activated in sleep. Although in LKS the loss of function is limited to language, in ESES there is a wider spectrum of…
Descriptors: Language Skill Attrition, Pathology, Language Skills, Autism