Thierry Deonna, Eliane Roulet-Perez

The Epilepsy Aphasias (eBook, ePUB)

Landau Kleffner Syndrome and Rolandic Epilepsy

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This comprehensive text highlights new scientific developments in the management of Landau Kleffner syndrome and related childhood epilepsies. Data from a wide range of epilepsy research combined with the extensive experience of the authors make this volume an essential text for all epileptologists and others managing children with the epilepsy aphasias.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Mac Keith Press
• Seitenzahl: 192
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. November 2016
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781909962781
• Artikelnr.: 47236399

Autorenporträt

Thierry Deonna is Emeritus Professor of Neurology at the University of Lausanne, Switzerland where he founded and headed the Child Neurology Unit at the University of Lausanne Children's Hospital. His main areas of interest are childhood epilepsy and developmental disorders. He has written over 150 articles and book chapters on general child neurology, language disorders and epilepsy.

Inhaltsangabe

Authors' Appointments vii
Forewords ix
Preface xi
Acknowledgements xiii
1. Introduction 1
2. History of the Landau-kleffner Syndrome 4
3. Classification Issues 18
4. Speech Perception and Brain Organization of Language: Relevant Features
for Landau-kleffner Syndrome and The Epilepsy-aphasia Spectrum 26
5. The Different Clinical Facets of Landau-kleffner Syndrome 34
6. Developmental Aspects of Landau-kleffner Syndrome and The
Epilepsy-aphasia Spectrum and The Overlap with Developmental Language
Disorders and Autism Spectrum Disorder 60
7. Evolution of Landau-kleffner Syndrome: Short-,mid- and long-term
Outcomes 70
8. From Rolandic Epilepsy to Landau-kleffner Syndrome 78
9. Laboratory Investigations in Landau-kleffner Syndrome and The
Epilepsy-aphasia Spectrum 95
10. Physiopathology of Speech, Language and Other Prolonged Epileptic
Dysfunction in Landau-kleffner Syndrome, Epilepsy with Continuous Spike
Waves During Sleep and Related Syndromes 106
11. Functional Neuroimaging Investigations in Idiopathic Focal Epilepsies
of Childhood with Cognitive and Behavioural Impairment 119
Xavier de Tiège, Serge Goldman, and Patrick van Bogaert
12. Drug Management of Cognitive Impairments in Landau-kleffner Syndrome
and Other Epilepsy Aphasia Spectrum Syndromes 127
13. Speech and Language, Educational and Psychological Remediation 137
14. Personal Testimonies and Unpublished Cases 156
15. Summary and Conclusions 167
References 170
Index 187