Vol.2 No.07 -7 : Neurobehavioral disorders in a group of children suffering from idiopathic epilepsy.

By : *Shewikar El Bakry;**Soha Abdel Hady Ibrahim ; Hasnaa Abdelrhman Abdallah

Abstract

Epilepsy is a common neurological disorder in which the normal activity of the brain cells is sometimes disturbed this can result in strange sensation, emotions and behaviors. The aim of the work is to study neurobehavioral changes that occur in group of children suffering from idiopathic epilepsy. This retrospective study included 80 children and adolescents, 50 of them with age range 2-6 years (28 males and 22 females, age 42.32±10.949 months) and 30 with age range 6-18 years (17 males and 13 females, age 9.57±2.369 years), enrolled from outpatient clinic of pediatric psychiatry& neurology Benha University Hospital.All patients were subjected to a complete history taking with stress on age of onset, duration of attack, character of

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