Oral dyspraxia in self-limited epilepsy with centrotemporal spikes: a comparative study with a control group

Abstract: Background: self-limited epilepsy with centrotemporal spikes, previously considered benign focal childhood epilepsy with centrotemporal spikes show clinical signs of involvement of Rolandic areas, mainly lower area, which may affect the planning and execution of motor sequences. Objective: This study aimed to evaluated oral praxis in children with self-limited epilepsy with centrotemporal spikes and compare to the age-matched control group. Methods: This was a descriptive study with 74 children with self-limited epilepsy with centrotemporal spikes, with the classical forms according to International League Against Epilepsy, and between 4 and 15 years of age, selected from the child neurology outpatient clinic of the Hospital das Clínicas, Faculdade de Medicina da Universidade de São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil, and 239 age-matched and educational level-matched (convenience sampling) control children. All children were submitted to the battery of oral volitional movements, which consisted of 44 tests for oral movement (tongue, lip, cheek, jaw, and palate) and 34 phonemes and consonant cluster tasks, with simple and sequenced oral movements. Results: The mean age and standard deviation (SD) of children with epilepsy was 9.08 years (SD 2.55) and of controls 9.61 years (SD 3.12). The results showed significant differences between the groups with a poorer performance of children with epilepsy compared to children without epilepsy in simple and particularly in sequenced movements. Conclusion: These findings can be attributed to the genetically determined immaturity of cortical structures related to motor planning in children with self-limited epilepsy with centrotemporal spikes.

Object Details

• Alternative title: Dispraxia oral em epilepsia autolimitada com espículas centrotemporais: um estudo comparativo com grupo controle
• Location: Deutsche Nationalbibliothek Frankfurt am Main
• Extent: Online-Ressource
• Language: Englisch

References and Relationships

• Bibliographic citation: Oral dyspraxia in self-limited epilepsy with centrotemporal spikes: a comparative study with a control group ; volume:79 ; number:12 ; year:2021 ; pages:1076-1083 ; Arquivos de neuro-psiquiatria ; 79, Heft 12 (2021), 1076-1083

Contributors, Places and Time

• Contributor: BERNARDO, Henrique Nicola Santo Antonio ; MIZIARA, Carmen Sílvia Molleis Galego ; MANREZA, Maria Luiza Giraldes de ; MANSUR, Letícia Lessa

Further information

• DOI: 10.1590/0004-282X-ANP-2021-0056
• URN: urn:nbn:de:101:1-2023072012225103776109
• Rights: Open Access; Der Zugriff auf das Objekt ist unbeschränkt möglich.
• Last update: 14.08.2025, 11:01 AM CEST