Mother and daughter with adolescent-onset severe frontal lobe dysfunction and epilepsy

Familial cases of early-onset prominent frontal lobe dysfunction associated with epilepsy have not been reported to date. We report a mother and her only daughter with incapacitating behavioral manifestations of frontal lobe dysfunction and epilepsy of variable severity. The possibility of a hithert...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autores principales: dos Passos, Giordani Rodrigues, Fernández, Alonso Cuadrado, Vasques, Adriana Machado, Martins, William Alves, Palmini, André
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Associação de Neurologia Cognitiva e do Comportamento 2016
Materias:
Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5642421/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29213461
http://dx.doi.org/10.1590/S1980-5764-2016DN1003011
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Sumario:Familial cases of early-onset prominent frontal lobe dysfunction associated with epilepsy have not been reported to date. We report a mother and her only daughter with incapacitating behavioral manifestations of frontal lobe dysfunction and epilepsy of variable severity. The possibility of a hitherto undescribed genetic condition is discussed.

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