Methylphenidate-Induced Seizure, ADHD and Abnormal EEG

Abstract

Investigators from Harvard Medical School, Boston, present the case of a 6-year-old girl with ADHD taking valproic acid for behavioral problems who had a generalized tonic-clonic convulsion shortly after a first dose of methylphenidate.

Keywords

• methylphenidate-induced seizure
• abnormal eeg
• electrographic seizures