Tantrums, Emotion Reactions and Their EEG Correlates in Childhood Benign Rolandic Epilepsy vs. Complex Partial Seizures: Exploratory Observations
| Autor: | Michael Potegal, John T. MacDonald, Elena H Drewel |
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| Rok vydání: | 2017 |
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050103 clinical psychology
medicine.medical_specialty interictal epileptiform discharges Cognitive Neuroscience media_common.quotation_subject Benign Rolandic Epilepsy Anger Audiology Electroencephalography Lateralization of brain function lcsh:RC321-571 03 medical and health sciences Behavioral Neuroscience Epilepsy 0302 clinical medicine medicine 0501 psychology and cognitive sciences Ictal lcsh:Neurosciences. Biological psychiatry. Neuropsychiatry media_common Original Research medicine.diagnostic_test 05 social sciences anger medicine.disease anxiety Sadness Neuropsychology and Physiological Psychology Anxiety fear hemispheric laterality medicine.symptom Psychology sadness 030217 neurology & neurosurgery Neuroscience |
| Zdroj: | Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience, Vol 12 (2018) |
| ISSN: | 1662-5153 |
| Popis: | We explored associations between EEG pathophysiology and emotional/behavioral (E/B) problems of children with two types of epilepsy using standard parent questionnaires and two new indicators: tantrums recorded by parents at home and brief, emotion-eliciting situations in the laboratory. Children with Benign Rolandic epilepsy (BRE, N = 6) reportedly had shorter, more angry tantrums from which they recovered quickly. Children with Complex Partial Seizures (CPS, N = 13) had longer, sadder tantrums often followed by bad moods. More generally, BRE correlated with anger and aggression; CPS with sadness and withdrawal. Scores of a composite group of siblings (N = 11) were generally intermediate between the BRE and CPS groups. Across all children, high voltage theta and/or interictal epileptiform discharges (IEDs) correlated with negative emotional reactions. Such EEG abnormalities in left hemisphere correlated with greater social fear, right hemisphere EEG abnormalities with greater anger. Right hemisphere localization in CPS was also associated with parent-reported problems at home. If epilepsy alters neural circuitry thereby increasing negative emotions, additional assessment of anti-epileptic drug treatment of epilepsy-related E/B problems would be warranted. |
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