Avaliação das funções executivas e mnésticas de crianças e adolescentes com epilepsia de lobo temporal / Evaluation of executive and memory functions in children and adolescents with temporal lobe epilepsy

AUTOR(ES)

Patrícia Rzezak Tencer

DATA DE PUBLICAÇÃO

2009

RESUMO

The present study aimed to investigate the presence and severity of memory and executive dysfunction in children with temporal lobe epilepsy; evaluate the influence of epilepsy clinical variables and the impact of executive dysfunction in memory. For this purpose, performance on attentional, executive and memory function tests of 32 children with temporal lobe epilepsy were compared to 21 healthy children. Patients had a worse performance than controls in tasks of attention, memory and executive functions. Severe memory and executive dysfunction were demonstrated in 56.25% and 71.88% of patients, respectively. The presence of hippocampus atrophy, early seizure onset, duration, and politherapy negatively influenced executive and mnestic performance.

ASSUNTO(S)

atenção adolescents neuropsychology neuropsicologia memória attention executive functions children funções executivas memory criança epilepsia do lobo temporal adolescente temporal lobe epilepsy

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