Abstract
The Landau-Kleffner syndrome is an acquired condition in children consisting of aphasia
and epileptic discharges in the EEG with or without clinical manifestation of epilepsy.
We describe a case of a very young child whose neurologic and language development
before onset of the illness was uniquely well documented. Apart from her aphasia she
showed several other disturbances of higher cortical functions in the acute phase
of the illness.
No anatomical basis has been discovered for this disease till the present day. We
discuss the possibility of an electrical dysregulation in several parts of the cortex
as a pathophysiological basis for this syndrome.
Key words
Childhood aphasia - Epilepsy - Cortical word deafness - Optic agnosia
