Childhood epilepsy
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psychiatric aspects of childhood epilepsy
how to cite this article: pattanayak rd, sagar r. psychiatric aspects of childhood epilepsy. iran j child neurol 2012;6(2):9-18. childhood epilepsy is a chronic, recurrent disorder of unprovoked seizures. theonset of epilepsy in childhood has significant implications for brain growth anddevelopment. seizures may impair the ongoing neurodevelopmental processes and compromise the child’s intellec...
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عنوان ژورنال: Postgraduate Medical Journal
سال: 1997
ISSN: 0032-5473
DOI: 10.1136/pgmj.73.855.63