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Familial association of neuropsychological traits in patients with generalized and partial seizure disorders.
Journal of clinical and experimental neuropsychology - 1 May 2002
Levav Miriam, Mirsky Allan F, Herault Judith, Xiong Lan, Amir Naomi, Andermann Eva
Abstract excerpt
To investigate familial effects of neuropsychological deficits associated with seizure disorders, we studied 65 families, in which 1 member had epilepsy. The disorders included childhood absence epilepsy (CAE), juvenile myoclonic epilepsy (JME) and temporal lobe epilepsy (TLE). Age-appropriate tests were administered to assess sustained attention, encoding and verbal memory, executive and focused attention and...
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