Extremely/Very Premature Birth Associated With Focal Epileptic Activity in Comorbid Autism and Epilepsy.

Publication date: Jun 27, 2025

BackgroundAutism spectrum disorder and epilepsy commonly occur together (ASD+EPI), suggesting shared pathology. However, epilepsy phenotypes within ASD+EPI are very heterogenous. Preterm birth poses a risk for both autism and epilepsy, and therefore may have a distinctive phenotype. MethodsWe used clinical EEG reports from more than 200 patients diagnosed with ASD+EPI and extracted lateralization and location data across multiple EEG time points. We analyzed epilepsy phenotypes between children born

Concepts Keywords
Autism autism
Epilepsy EEG
Pathology electroencephalography
Premature epilepsy
Preterm preterm

Semantics

Type Source Name
disease MESH Premature Birth
disease MESH Autism
disease MESH Epilepsy

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