The cognitive effects of interictal epileptiform EEG discharges and short nonconvulsive epileptic seizures

Purpose:  Educational difficulties or even severe cognitive deterioration is seen in many childhood epilepsy syndromes. Many of those cognitive deficits are related directly to the brain disorder underlying the epilepsy syndrome. However, in other types of epilepsy, the epileptic seizures and/or epileptiform activity can be the dominant factor. This is especially unknown for the more “subtle” short nonconvulsive seizure types. For this reason, we analyzed a new cohort of children.

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