Landau-Kleffner syndrome

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: LKS, Landau-Kleffner syndrome, acquired epileptic aphasia, FESD, Rolandic epilepsy, intellectual disability, and speech dyspraxia, autosomal dominant, Rolandic epilepsy, mental retardation, and speech dyspraxia, autosomal dominant, acquired aphasia with convulsive disorder, acquired epileptiform aphasia

9 clinical trials for this condition and its sub-types.