MENTAL AND BEHAVIOURAL DETERIORATION OF CHILDREN WITH EPILEPSY AND CSWS: ACQURIED EPILEPTIC FRONTAL SYNDROME
- 1 August 1993
- journal article
- case report
- Published by Wiley in Developmental Medicine and Child Neurology
- Vol. 35 (8), 661-674
- https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1469-8749.1993.tb11711.x
Abstract
Four children with 'epilepsy and continuous spike-wave sleep' syndrome and mental and behavioural regression were followed prospectively with neuropsychological tests, behavioural questionnaires and sleep EEG performed at regular intervals between 1 1/2 and four years of age. The children showed a pattern of behavioural and cognitive disturbances similar to that found in some developmental autistic-like disorders, but also in adult frontal syndrome. Deterioration was probably due to an unusual long-standing epileptic dysfunction involving the frontal lobes. The process is potentially reversible and seems to be the same as postulated for acquired epileptic aphasia, but in a different localization.Keywords
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