title: Academic Underachievement in Children with Active Epilepsy.
abstract: Investigators from Lingfield, Surrey, UK; University of Gothenburg, Sweden; Great Ormond Street Hospital, London, UK, and other centers, conducted psychological assessment including measures of IQ, working memory and processing speed in 85 (74%) of 115 school aged children with active epilepsy (a seizure in the past year and/or on AEDs) from a population-based sample, without exclusion for intellectual deficiency.
authors.affiliation: Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago; Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, IL.
authors.forename: Frank A
authors.initials: FA
authors.lastname: Zelko
keywords: Cognition; Comprehension; Epilepsy