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Landau-Kleffner syndrome

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A rare form of epileptic encephalopathy with spike-wave activation in sleep (EE-SWAS) characterized by various combinations of acquired cognitive, language, behavioral, and motor deficits associated with marked spike- and- wave activation in sleep. In Landau-Kleffner syndrome, receptive language is mainly affected, with an acquired auditory verbal agnosia.

Also known as
acquired aphasia with convulsive disorder · acquired epileptic aphasia · acquired epileptiform aphasia · epilepsy, focal, with speech disorder and with or without intellectual disability · epilepsy, focal, with speech disorder and with or without mental retardation

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