Benign childhood epilepsy with centrotemporal spikes: word and pseudoword discrimination.
Arq Neuropsiquiatr
; 67(2B): 450-6, 2009 Jun.
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| ID: mdl-19623443
UNLABELLED: In the active phase of benign childhood epilepsy with centro-temporal spikes (BCECTS) there may be a fall in scholastic performance. OBJECTIVE: To study lexical decision in children with BCECTS. METHOD: 42 children with BCECTS were compared with a control group with respect to their hits and response time in a visual discrimination of words and pseudowords task (DWPT). RESULTS: The children with BCECTS had a lower percentage of hits for words and pseudowords and showed longer response times for pseudowords. They also frequently showed inferior reading and writing performance in the school performance test. The percentage of hits for pseudowords was lower when there was bilateral, asynchronous epileptiform activity. CONCLUSIONS: The DWPT provided contributions for reading assessments in children with BCECTS. The results indicated the need for attention in detecting reading difficulties in children with BCECTS.
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Assunto principal:
Leitura
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Epilepsia Rolândica
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Discriminação Psicológica
Tipo de estudo:
Observational_studies
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Prognostic_studies
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Risk_factors_studies
Limite:
Child
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Female
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Humans
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Male
Idioma:
En
Revista:
Arq Neuropsiquiatr
Ano de publicação:
2009
Tipo de documento:
Article
País de afiliação:
Brasil
País de publicação:
Alemanha