Magnetoencephalographic patterns of epileptiform activity in children with regressive autism spectrum disorders

Abstract

* Abbreviation: EEG = : electroencephalogram The issue of the contribution of subclinical epilepsy to autistic spectrum and developmental and acquired communication and language disorders is one of the most important in clinical developmental neurosciences. We need to know what proportion of these disorders are caused or triggered by epilepsy, to what extent can the process be reversed and what would be the mechanism of such catastrophic selective and global loss of cortical function. The model that has been used in the study reported by Lewine and colleagues1 in this month's issue is of a disorder that has an onset after a period of normal or near normal early development and their finding of evidence …

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