Behavioural comorbidity in Tanzanian children with epilepsy: a community-based case–control study

• Behavioural comorbidity in Tanzanian children with epilepsy: a community-based case–control study

  ‘Behavioural comorbidity in Tanzanian children with epilepsy: a community-based case–control study’ by Kathryn Burton, Jane Rogathe, Ewan Hunter, Matthew Burton, Mark Swai, Jim Todd, Brian Neville, Richard Walker, Charles Newton. The aim and emphasis of this study was to define the prevalence of and risk factors for behavioural disorders in children with epilepsy from a rural district of Tanzania by conducting a community-based case–control study. Editor in Chief of Developmental Medicine & Child Neurology, Dr Peter Baxter, speaks to one of the co-authors, Professor Charles Newton (Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust, North Tyneside General Hospital, North Shields, UK) and to Professor David Dunn (Departments of Psychiatry and Neurology, Indiana University School of Medicine, Indianapolis, IN, USA), who has written a commentary with Rachel Yoder on this paper: ‘Challenge of neurological and psychosocial problems in developing countries’. Read the paper: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1469-8749.2011.04109.x/abstract Read the commentary: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1469-8749.2011.04121.x/abstract

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