Rate of Development of Intractable Epilepsy

Abstract

The time taken to develop intractability of epilepsy was determined prospectively in a cohort of 613 children followed in the Connecticut Study for a median of 9.7 years and reported by researchers from Northern Illinois University, DeKalb, IL; University of California Los Angeles, CA; Yale Medical School, New Haven, CT; and Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, NY.

Keywords

• epilepsy diagnosis
• intractability
• cryptogenic etiology