Category: Epilepsy & Behavior

Benign childhood epilepsy with centrotemporal spikes (BECTS) is a form of childhood epilepsy that most children outgrow during adolescence but which has been associated with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) and other neuropsychological disorders. To better understand this association, Bektas and colleagues compared 58 BECTS children to 60 neurotypical children and found that not only were BECTS children more likely to develop ASD, the likelihood of developing ASD tended to increase the older a child was when epileptic seizures began.

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