Landau-Kleffner syndrome is marked by an acquired aphasia in children who have had normal language and motor development. A 3.5-year-old girl was referred to our clinic with stuttering. She was diagnosed as having benign myoclonic epilepsy of infancy at 3.5 months of age and treated with valproic acid. Her electroencephalogram (EEG) returned to normal at the end of the first year. The therapy w...

Sir, In reference to the paper by Avasthi et al. (1996) regarding "Seasonality and Recurrent Mania" I have to say that this is very common observation which every psychiatrist do recognize i.e. many a patient do suffer only from mania year after year for many consecutive years with no trace of depression in between. I have also come across such patients which forms a respectable proportion of a...

The Landau-Kleffner syndrome is a rare disorder characterised by an acquired receptive and expressive aphasia and epileptic seizuresl-4; it is also known as 'a syndrome of acquired aphasia with convulsive disorder'3 or 'acquired aphasia of childhood with epilepsy'.5 It is defined on the basis of specific clinical and electroencephalography (EEG) criteria. It is almost certainly under recognised...

The Landau-Kleffner syndrome is a rare disorder characterised by an acquired receptive and expressive aphasia and epileptic seizuresl-4; it is also known as 'a syndrome of acquired aphasia with convulsive disorder'3 or 'acquired aphasia of childhood with epilepsy'.5 It is defined on the basis of specific clinical and electroencephalography (EEG) criteria. It is almost certainly under recognised...

The Landau-Kleffner syndrome is a rare disorder characterised by an acquired receptive and expressive aphasia and epileptic seizuresl-4; it is also known as 'a syndrome of acquired aphasia with convulsive disorder'3 or 'acquired aphasia of childhood with epilepsy'.5 It is defined on the basis of specific clinical and electroencephalography (EEG) criteria. It is almost certainly under recognised...