The Neurodevelopmental Impact of Childhood‐onset Temporal Lobe Epilepsy on Brain Structure and Function

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Authors

Bruce P. Hermann · University of Wisconsin–Madison

Michael Seidenberg · Rosalind Franklin University of Medicine and Science

Brian Bell

Paul Rutecki

Raj D. Sheth

Kevin H. Ruggles · Marshfield Clinic

Gary Wendt · University of Wisconsin–Madison

Daniel S. OʼLeary · University of Iowa

Abstract

Childhood-onset temporal lobe epilepsy appears to be associated with an adverse neurodevelopmental impact on brain structure and cognition that appears generalized in nature and especially evident in white-matter tissue volume.

Topics & Keywords

Epilepsy research and treatment Neuroscience and Neuropharmacology Research Neonatal and fetal brain pathology

UN Sustainable Development Goals

No poverty

Publication Details

Published in: Epilepsia

Volume 43, Issue 9, pp. 1062-1071

DOI: 10.1046/j.1528-1157.2002.49901.x

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