Epilepsy and Comorbid Mental Retardation

Abstract

Preventable and unpreventable causes of childhood-onset epilepsy associated with mental retardation were determined in 692 patients with epilepsy onset between 1977 and 1985 in a Nova Scotia population-based cohort studied in the Department of Pediatrics, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Canada.

Keywords

• mental retardation
• psychological testing
• perinatal asphyxia