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Autosomal dominant rolandic epilepsy with speech dyspraxia Volume 2, supplément 4, Supplément 1, Décembre 2000

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Departments of Neurology, Austin and Repatriation Medical Centre, Royal Children's Hospital, Monash Medical Centre, and University of Melbourne, Australia.
  • Page(s) : 19-22
  • Année de parution : 2001

The disorder, autosomal dominant rolandic epilepsy with speech dyspraxia (ADRESD), was described in an Australian family in 1995 [1]. It is a rare condition, as further families have only recently been recognised. ADRESD illustrates the relationship between speech disorders and benign rolandic epilepsy (BRE) [2, 3]. Further, ADRESD and BRE are thought to form a spectrum, with the rare, severe epilepsy-aphasia syndromes, Landau-Kleffner syndrome [...]