Brain & development
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Brain & development · Feb 2011
Childhood absence epilepsy: Elctroclinical features and diagnostic criteria.
To analyze the electroclinical features of children with childhood absence epilepsy (CAE) and discuss the diagnostic criteria for CAE. ⋯ Few patients meeting the 1989 ILAE diagnostic criteria for CAE meet the new diagnostic criteria proposed by Panayiotopoulos in 2005. The new criteria for CAE are too strict to appropriately classify some patients.
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Brain & development · Feb 2011
Psychological assessment in children and adolescents with Benign Paroxysmal Vertigo.
Migraine in childhood and adolescence has been associated with the presence of behavioural and emotional difficulties, but only few data are available with respect to unusual types of headache syndromes such as Benign Paroxysmal Vertigo of Childhood (BPVC). Aim of the present study was to evaluate the behavioural and emotional profiles of clinically referred children and adolescents suffering from BPVC and migraine, as compared to normal controls. According to the revised International Classification of Headache Disorders (ICHD-2) the BPVC belongs to the category of "primary headache", as a migraine equivalent, in a subset that is called "periodic syndromes of childhood". ⋯ Furthermore, both BPVC and migraine groups displayed significantly higher CDI and MASC scores than NC group. No differences were found between the two types of headache. In conclusion, clinically referred children and adolescents with BPVC and migraine showed higher indices of behavioural and emotional symptoms, both internalizing and externalizing, as compared to normal peers.