Neuropsychology of childhood epilepsy: Pre‐ and postsurgical assessment
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Abstract
Childhood epilepsy is one of the most prevalent forms of chronic and disabling childhood disorders. Because it disrupts brain maturation, it has long been thought to produce non-specific consequences such as mental deficiency and behavioral problems. However, advances in medical knowledge have shown that childhood epilepsy should not be considered as a single disorder, and it is now becoming apparent that various clinical entities have different cognitive expressions that yet need to be specified. The purpose of this paper is to provide an up-to-date analysis of this multi-faceted pathology. The first section is devoted to the characterization of the neuropsychological profile that accompanies focal epilepsies, as defined by the site of the epileptic process. We report the first group study of children with frontal lobe epilepsy. The results indicate that frontal lobe epilepsy produces symptoms (deficits of planning, attention and motor dexterity) that are akin to those found in frontal-lesioned adults. Similarly, like in adults, temporal lobe epilepsy produces memory impairment in children as well as behavioral and academic disturbances. Occipito-parietal lobe epilepsy is rare in children and its effects still need to be specified. The second section deals with the neuropsychological techniques used in presurgical evaluation. Finally, the various neurosurgical procedures that are increasingly being used as part of the arsenal of epilepsy treatment are described along with the neuropsychological findings that are associated with these interventions. It can be concluded that the beneficial effects of epilepsy surgery (callosotomy, hemispherectomy, temporal and extra-temporal resections) by far outweigh the few cognitive deficits that are occasionally reported following these interventions.
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Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
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| Metaresearch | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.004 | 0.000 |
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