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Objective Although benign epilepsy with centrotemporal spikes (BECTS) is an idiopathic, age-related epilepsy syndrome with favorable outcome, recent studies have shown impairment in specific neuropsychological tests. The objective of this study was to analyze the comorbidity between dyslexia and BECTS. Method Thirty-one patients with clinical and electroencephalographic diagnosis of BECTS (group A) and 31 paired children (group B) underwent a language and neuropsychological assessment performed with several standardized protocols. Our findings were categorized as: a) dyslexia; b) other difficulties; c) without difficulties. Our results were compared and statistically analyzed. Results Our data showed that dyslexia occurred in 19.4% and other difficulties in 74.2% of our patients. This was highly significant when compared with the control group (p

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In the purpose of a better clinical, electroencephalographical and evolutional characterisation of rolandic epilepsy (RE), we prospectively evaluated a group of 28 children with RE monitored by Clinic of Pediatric Neurology Cluj-Napoca, from 2004 to 2010. We noted the semiology, frequency and evolution of the seizures. We have made awake and sleep EEG recordings and MRI investigation, when clinical data have imposed that. Average age of seizures onset was of 6,97 ± 1,86 years (ranges 2,3 - 10,1 years), with male dominance (1,8:1). Most children (71,42%) had rare seizures during night sleep, with typical facio-brachyal symptoms, and characteristic rolandic spikes on EEG recordings, dominant temporal located and sleep activation (up to 3 times the freqeuncy in wakefulness). From the group, 21 (75%) patients received antiepileptic medication, of choice being carbamazepine. Evolution was favorable in 26 of the children, they have never presented seizures again, and in three of them antiepileptic therapy was withdrawed. In two children, seizures have persisted, one of them developed a form of epileptic encephalopathy. In both seizures started at early age. RE remains a welldefined form of idiopathic epilepsy with rare seizures and typical EEG changes, characteristically exacerbated by sleep. The evolution favorable in most cases with remission of the seizures, does not exclude development of more severe epileptic syndromes. Young age of onset of seizures appears to be a factor that determined the prognosis. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]