Chronic Progressive Encephalitides

Abstract

An excellent review of chronic progressive encephalitides of childhood (CPEC), with particular emphasis on the prototypical disease, subacute sclerosing panencephalitis (SSPE), is presented from the Institute for Research in Childhood Neurodegenerative Diseases, and University of South Alabama, Mobile, AL.

Keywords

• chronic progressive encephalitides of childhood
• subacute sclerosing panencephalitis
• dementia