Early juvenile reading epilepsy and later frontotemporal dementia (FTD): expanding the clinical phenotype of C9ORF72 mutation?

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C9orf72 mutation (C9+) is a common genetic cause of frontotemporal dementia and amyotrophic lateral sclerosis. C9+ clinical phenotype is heterogeneous and epilepsy has been recently described in few cases. We report a 47-year-old patient who developed reflex reading epilepsy (RRE) at the age of 19. After the first years with exclusive reflex seizures, afterwards the patients developed drug-resistant, unprovoked...

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