Thierry Deonna, Eliane Roulet-Perez

The Epilepsy Aphasia Spectrum

From Landau-Kleffner Syndrome to Rolandic Epilepsy

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Produktbeschreibung

Landau-Kleffner syndrome (LKS) is a rare childhood neurological syndrome. It is characterised by a sudden or gradual loss of ability to understand of express language (aphasia) and usually occurs in children between the ages of 3 and 7 years. Rolandic epilepsy is the most common epilepsy syndrome in childhood with involvement of the oropharyngeal manifestations, hypersalivation and arrest of speech. These two syndromes are considered to be aspects of the 'epilepsy-aphasia spectrum' with common rolandic epilepsy being the mildest form and LKS the most severe.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Wiley
• Seitenzahl: 200
• Erscheinungstermin: 24. Januar 2017
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 241mm x 173mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 567g
• ISBN-13: 9781909962767
• ISBN-10: 1909962767
• Artikelnr.: 45343514

Autorenporträt

Thierry Deonna, Emeritus Professor of Neurology, the Child Neurology Unit, University of Lausanne Children's Hospital,the University of Lausanne, Switzerland. Eliane Roulet-Perez, Professor of Paediatric Neurology at the Faculty of Biology and Medicine, University of Lausanne, Switzerland. Head of the Paediatric Neurology and Neurorehabilitation Unit, Centre Hospitalier Universitaire Vaudois, Lausanne, Switzerland.

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