[Typical benign epilepsy potentials in childhood (Rolandic spikes)--neurobiological and neuropsychological symptoms and their clinical significance in child and adolescent psychiatry].

doi:10.1024/1422-4917.32.2.117

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[Typical benign epilepsy potentials in childhood (Rolandic spikes)--neurobiological and neuropsychological symptoms and their clinical significance in child and adolescent psychiatry].

Zeitschrift fur Kinder- und Jugendpsychiatrie und Psychotherapie - 1 May 2004

Holtmann M, Becker K, el-Faddagh M, Schmidt M H

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INTRODUCTION: Rolandic epilepsy is the most frequent epileptic syndrome in childhood, electroencephalographically characterized by focal sharp waves, so called rolandic spikes (benign epileptiform discharges of childhood). These discharges occur in about 1.5 to 2.4% of children; only 10% of them suffer from epileptic seizures. METHODS: This paper reviews genetic, epidemiological, radiological, neurophysiologic,...

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