Landau-Kleffner Syndrome

The six new cases and review of the literature concerning acquired aphasia with convulsive disorder by Paquier et al 1 constitute a useful benchmark in the 3.5-decade history of this clinical phenomenon. 2,3 From the personal perspective of attaining three score and seven and the condition of Status Eponymicus, I can find no basis for ego gratification. The new observation of continuing paroxysmal electroencephalographic activity during sleep in some patients complies with our early suggestion 2 that persistent convulsive discharge in brain tissue largely concerned with linguistic