Epilepsy and Learning Disability - recent items
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Author(s): Makrythanasis, Periklis, Kato, Mitsuhiro, Zaki, Maha S, Saitsu, Hirotomo, Nakamura, Kazuyuki, Santoni, Federico A, Miyatake, Satoko, Nakashima, Mitsuko, Issa, Mahmoud Y, Guipponi, Michel, Letourneau, Audrey, Logan, Clare V, Roberts, Nicola, Parry, David A, Johnson, Colin A, Matsumoto, Naomichi, Hamamy, Hanan, Sheridan, Eamonn, Kinoshita, Taroh, Antonarakis, Stylianos E, Murakami, Yoshiko
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Effect of learning disabilities on academic self-concept in children with epilepsy and on their quality of life.
Academic self-concept could significantly affect academic achievement and self-confidence in children with epilepsy. However, limited attention has been devoted to determining factors influencing academic self-concept of children with epilepsy. We aimed to analyze potentially significant variables (gender, frequency of seizures, duration of epilepsy, intellectual disability, learning disability...
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Epidemiological issues in ‘special groups’ are dependent on both the source and age of the population. Cohort effects, due to year of birth, are important in defining prevalence in both learning disability1 and epilepsy2. Table 137 shows epidemiological surveys of the prevalence of epilepsy in people with mental and physical handicap. A survey in an institution for people with learning disabil...
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A major component of the population of people who have epilepsy are people with a learning disability. As a group, such individuals often have complex epilepsy which is refractory to treatment. Current available measures to assess the outcomes of therapeutic interventions in epilepsy are based on seizure frequency, seizure severity and quality-of-life measures, but have not been validated in pe...
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