Unilateral frontal lobe epilepsy affects executive functions in children
| Autor: | N. Paruta, F. Aggio, Silvana Franceschetti, C. Vago, E. Andreucci, S. D’Arrigo, F. Nichelli, Chiara Pantaleoni, Veronica Saletti, G. Avanzini, Sara Bulgheroni, Daria Riva |
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| Rok vydání: | 2005 |
| Předmět: |
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medicine.medical_specialty Adolescent Epilepsy Frontal Lobe Intelligence Dermatology Brain damage Audiology Functional Laterality Thinking Epilepsy Borderline intellectual functioning Cognition medicine Humans Learning Age of Onset Child Epileptogenic focus business.industry Neuropsychology General Medicine Executive functions medicine.disease Psychiatry and Mental health Frontal lobe Child Preschool Female Neurology (clinical) medicine.symptom business |
| Zdroj: | Neurological sciences : official journal of the Italian Neurological Society and of the Italian Society of Clinical Neurophysiology. 26(4) |
| ISSN: | 1590-1874 |
| Popis: | Very few studies to date have investigated the neuropsychological changes detectable in children suffering from frontal lobe epilepsy (FLE). The aim of the present study was to assess the effects of FLE on cognitive and executive functions in childhood. The sample includes 17 children with a frontal epileptogenic focus (10 right and 7 left), with no evidence of anatomical brain damage. These subjects were assessed by means of a battery of tests to investigate executive functioning. The results emphasised the presence of selective impairments of frontal lobe functions without evidence of deficits in global intellectual functioning. No side-specific deficits were detected, while an earlier onset of epilepsy and the duration of the disorder, but not the seizures frequency, were found to correspond with more severe deficits in some specific frontal lobe functions. |
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