Combined Epilepsy/ADHD and Working Memory

J Gordon Millichap

doi:10.15844/pedneurbriefs-26-3-3

Combined Epilepsy/ADHD and Working Memory

Pediatric Neurology Briefs

Volume 26 (2012): Issue 3

By: J Gordon Millichap

Open Access

|Mar 2012

Abstract

Researchers at University Children’s Hospital Basel, and other centers in Switzerland, Norway, and Germany studied behavioral differences in working memory performance, response to methylphenidate, and functional brain organization in 17 boys with combined epilepsy/ADHD, 15 boys with developmental ADHD, and 15 healthy controls (aged 8-14 years).

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.15844/pedneurbriefs-26-3-3 | Journal eISSN: 2166-6482

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Language: English

Page range: 19 - 19

Published on: Mar 1, 2012

Published by: Pediatric Neurology Briefs Publishers

In partnership with: Paradigm Publishing Services

Keywords:

Methylphenidate,

Epilepsy

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