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

ABSTRACT 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...

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Main Authors: Giordani Rodrigues dos Passos, Alonso Cuadrado Fernández, Adriana Machado Vasques, William Alves Martins, André Palmini
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Associação Neurologia Cognitiva e do Comportamento
Series:Dementia & Neuropsychologia
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Online Access:http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S1980-57642016000300238&lng=en&tlng=en
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spelling doaj-fca74dba13dc49758fad74214258c6c82020-11-24T20:47:33ZengAssociação Neurologia Cognitiva e do ComportamentoDementia & Neuropsychologia1980-576410323824310.1590/S1980-5764-2016DN1003011S1980-57642016000300238Mother and daughter with adolescent-onset severe frontal lobe dysfunction and epilepsyGiordani Rodrigues dos PassosAlonso Cuadrado FernándezAdriana Machado VasquesWilliam Alves MartinsAndré PalminiABSTRACT 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.http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S1980-57642016000300238&lng=en&tlng=enfrontal lobegeneticsbehavioralneuropsychiatryepilepsiespartialheredity
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author Giordani Rodrigues dos Passos
Alonso Cuadrado Fernández
Adriana Machado Vasques
William Alves Martins
André Palmini
spellingShingle Giordani Rodrigues dos Passos
Alonso Cuadrado Fernández
Adriana Machado Vasques
William Alves Martins
André Palmini
Mother and daughter with adolescent-onset severe frontal lobe dysfunction and epilepsy
Dementia & Neuropsychologia
frontal lobe
genetics
behavioral
neuropsychiatry
epilepsies
partial
heredity
author_facet Giordani Rodrigues dos Passos
Alonso Cuadrado Fernández
Adriana Machado Vasques
William Alves Martins
André Palmini
author_sort Giordani Rodrigues dos Passos
title Mother and daughter with adolescent-onset severe frontal lobe dysfunction and epilepsy
title_short Mother and daughter with adolescent-onset severe frontal lobe dysfunction and epilepsy
title_full Mother and daughter with adolescent-onset severe frontal lobe dysfunction and epilepsy
title_fullStr Mother and daughter with adolescent-onset severe frontal lobe dysfunction and epilepsy
title_full_unstemmed Mother and daughter with adolescent-onset severe frontal lobe dysfunction and epilepsy
title_sort mother and daughter with adolescent-onset severe frontal lobe dysfunction and epilepsy
publisher Associação Neurologia Cognitiva e do Comportamento
series Dementia & Neuropsychologia
issn 1980-5764
description ABSTRACT 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.
topic frontal lobe
genetics
behavioral
neuropsychiatry
epilepsies
partial
heredity
url http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S1980-57642016000300238&lng=en&tlng=en
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