Transient psychosis in a girl with epilepsy and continuous spikes and waves during slow sleep (CSWS)
A normally developed and healthy 6-year-old girl suffered the onset of epilepsy with generalized tonic-clonic seizures and atypical absences. Initially the EEG showed epileptiform activity over the temporal and parietal regions, later there were episodes of bilateral synchronous spike-wave activity...
| Published in: | European Child & Adolescent Psychiatry Vol. 5; no. 4; pp. 216 - 222 |
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| Format: | case study Journal Article |
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Springer Nature
Dec1996
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