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Mbwana, J.; Berl, M. M.; Ritzl, E. K.; Rosenberger, L.; Mayo, J.; Weinstein, S.; Conry, J. A.; Pearl, P. L.; Shamim, S.; Moore, E. N.; Sato, S.; Vezina, L. G.; Theodore, W. H.; Gaillard, W. D. – Brain, 2009
Neural networks for processing language often are reorganized in patients with epilepsy. However, the extent and location of within and between hemisphere re-organization are not established. We studied 45 patients, all with a left hemisphere seizure focus (mean age 22.8, seizure onset 13.3), and 19 normal controls (mean age 24.8) with an fMRI…
Descriptors: Brain Hemisphere Functions, Epilepsy, Patients, Language Processing
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Meador, Kimford J.; Baker, Gus A.; Browning, Nancy; Cohen, Morris J.; Clayton-Smith, Jill; Kalayjian, Laura A.; Kanner, Andres; Liporace, Joyce D.; Pennell, Page B.; Privitera, Michael; Loring, David W. – Brain, 2011
We previously reported that foetal valproate exposure impairs intelligence quotient. In this follow-up investigation, we examined dose-related effects of foetal antiepileptic drug exposure on verbal and non-verbal cognitive measures. This investigation is an ongoing prospective observational multi-centre study in the USA and UK, which has enrolled…
Descriptors: Epilepsy, Seizures, Intelligence Quotient, Preschool Children
Mittan, Robert J. – Exceptional Parent, 2010
The possible causes of learning difficulties in children with epilepsy are long and complex. In order to see that a child is given an adequate evaluation, an understanding of what these many causes are and how those causes may be interrelated is necessary. This article discusses the first three of the six categories of the causes: (1) Organic; (2)…
Descriptors: Learning Problems, Epilepsy, Family Life, Learning Disabilities
Mittan, Robert J. – Exceptional Parent, 2010
This is a six part article intended to give parents the information and strategies they need to cope with their child with epilepsy who may have school learning problems. Epilepsy and seizures affect the classroom in unique ways that can make the learning experience especially challenging for some kids. Fortunately, much can be done to give the…
Descriptors: Learning Problems, Epilepsy, Learning Disabilities, Seizures
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Roberts, Jillian; Whiting-MacKinnon, Cheryl – British Journal of Special Education, 2012
Epilepsy affects between 0.3 and 0.6% of Canadian children aged 18 years and younger, and is one of the most frequently diagnosed neurological disorders among children in Canada as well as Europe. As such, it is likely that teachers will experience having a child with epilepsy in the classroom. Understanding how best to support children with…
Descriptors: Quality of Life, Foreign Countries, Epilepsy, Children
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Matson, Johnny L.; Neal, Daniene – Research in Autism Spectrum Disorders, 2009
Autism spectrum disorders (ASD) are serious neurodevelopmental disorders which often co-occur with intellectual disabilities. A disorder which is strongly correlated with both of these disabilities are seizures and epilepsy. The purpose of this review was to provide an overview of available research on seizures and epilepsy in the ASD population…
Descriptors: Epilepsy, Mental Retardation, Autism, Seizures
Mittan, Robert J. – Exceptional Parent, 2009
Probably one of the most challenging dilemmas facing people with epilepsy and parents of children with epilepsy are the questions of "if," "who," "when," and "how" to tell others about the epilepsy. There is fear of stigma and rejection. Yet there remains the need to reveal seizures before they reveal themselves without one's control. Telling…
Descriptors: Epilepsy, Seizures, Parents, Diseases
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Reilly, Colin J. – Research in Developmental Disabilities: A Multidisciplinary Journal, 2011
ADHD and epilepsy common are both common childhood disorders and both can have significant negative consequences on a child's behavioural, learning, and social development. Both conditions can co-occur and population studies suggest that the prevalence of ADHD in childhood epilepsy is between 12 and 17%. The prevalence of epilepsy in ADHD is lower…
Descriptors: Epilepsy, Incidence, Mental Retardation, Quality of Life
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Parisi, Pasquale; Bruni, Oliviero; Pia Villa, Maria; Verrotti, Alberto; Miano, Silvia; Luchetti, Anna; Curatolo, Paolo – Developmental Medicine & Child Neurology, 2010
Aim: The purpose of this review was to examine the possible pathophysiological links between epilepsy, cognition, sleep macro- and microstructure, and sleep disorders to highlight the contributions and interactions of sleep and epilepsy on cognitive functioning in children with epilepsy. Method: PubMed was used as the medical database source. No…
Descriptors: Epilepsy, Seizures, Sleep, Memory
Mittan, Robert J. – Exceptional Parent, 2010
In the last article the author discussed the powerful effect epilepsy has on the social functioning of the classroom and how this impact can affect learning difficulties in the student. Epilepsy also exerts a powerful influence upon the teacher, depending how educated that teacher is and any fears about seizures the teacher may harbor. Fortunately…
Descriptors: Learning Problems, Epilepsy, Learning Disabilities, Seizures
Henderson, Nancy – Exceptional Parent, 2008
This article describes how an implantable device could greatly improve the quality of life for people with epilepsy. Gabe Anderson was diagnosed with bilateral heterotopia, a congenital condition that can lead to the onset of complex partial seizures stemming from both hemispheres of the brain. In early 2004, Gabe became one of the first 35…
Descriptors: Seizures, Brain, Epilepsy, Neurology
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Carlsson, G.; Wiegand, G.; Stephani, U. – Brain and Cognition, 2011
Dichotic listening test (DL) is an important tool to disclose speech dominance in healthy subjects and in clinical cases. The aim of this study was to probe if focal epilepsy in children reveals a corresponding suppression of the ear reports contralateral to seizure onset site. Thus, 15 children and adolescents with clinically and…
Descriptors: Epilepsy, Seizures, Listening Comprehension Tests, Auditory Perception
Mittan, Robert J. – Exceptional Parent, 2009
This is the fourth in a series of four articles about how to tell others about a child's epilepsy. If a child has epilepsy, parents will be confronted with the need to tell the parents of their child's friends about their child's epilepsy. This can be exceedingly difficult for a parent the first few times. Parents can make their world safer for…
Descriptors: Epilepsy, Seizures, Disclosure, Communication Strategies
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Broeders, Mark; Geurts, Hilde; Jennekens-Schinkel, Aag – International Journal of Language & Communication Disorders, 2010
Background: Various psychiatric and neurological disorders including epilepsy have been associated with language deficits. Pragmatic language deficits, however, have seldom been the focus of earlier studies in children with epilepsy. Moreover, it is unknown whether these pragmatic deficits are related to general intellectual functioning. Both…
Descriptors: Intelligence, Epilepsy, Hospitals, Seizures
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Leventer, Richard J.; Jansen, Anna; Pilz, Daniela T.; Stoodley, Neil; Marini, Carla; Dubeau, Francois; Malone, Jodie; Mitchell, L. Anne; Mandelstam, Simone; Scheffer, Ingrid E.; Berkovic, Samuel F.; Andermann, Frederick; Andermann, Eva; Guerrini, Renzo; Dobyns, William B. – Brain, 2010
Polymicrogyria is one of the most common malformations of cortical development and is associated with a variety of clinical sequelae including epilepsy, intellectual disability, motor dysfunction and speech disturbance. It has heterogeneous clinical manifestations and imaging patterns, yet large cohort data defining the clinical and imaging…
Descriptors: Age, Epilepsy, Mental Retardation, Seizures
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