1043-3155 Pediatr Neurol Briefs pedneurbriefs Pediatr Neurol Briefs Pediatric Neurology Briefs Pediatr Neurol Briefs 2166-6482 1043-3155 2166-3155 Pediatric Neurology Briefs Publishers Chicago, IL, USA PNB-2013-27-7-6 10.15844/pedneurbriefs-27-7-6 Seizure Disorders Neurology Pediatrics Nervous System Diseases Child Development Brain Diseases Neurosurgery Child Infant Neuropsychological Impairment and Rolandic Epilepsy http://orcid.org/0000-0002-0173-7931 Millichap J. Gordon MD 1 2 * Division of Neurology, Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago, Chicago, IL Departments of Pediatrics and Neurology, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, IL Correspondence: Dr. J. Gordon Millichap, E-mail: jgmillichap@northwestern.edu 07 2013 15 10 2015 27 7 52 52 Copyright: © 2013 The Author(s) 2013 This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. Neuropsychological impairment in children with Rolandic epilepsy and in their siblings

Investigators at Universities of Chiete and Salerno, Italy, evaluated the neuropsychological profile of children with rolandic epilepsy (RE) at onset and of their healthy siblings.

 Rolandic Epilepsy Verbal Comprehension Genetic Susceptibility

Investigators at Universities of Chiete and Salerno, Italy, evaluated the neuropsychological profile of children with rolandic epilepsy (RE) at onset and of their healthy siblings. A significant impairment in language, attention, and short- and long-term memory but no impairment in visual-spatial memory was found in both patients and siblings. Verbal comprehension and working memory scores showed a positive correlation in both groups, supporting the hypothesis of a specific neurocognitive phenotype and shared genetic susceptibility in RE. [1]

COMMENT. Early recognition of the neuropsychological impairments in patients with RE should be useful in addressing educational needs and IEP resources for patients.

Verrotti A Matricardi S Di Giacomo DL Rapino D Chiarelli F Coppola G Neuropsychological impairment in children with Rolandic epilepsy and in their siblings Epilepsy Behav 2013 Jul 28 1 108 12 10.1016/j.yebeh.2013.04.005 23708147