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Overview Of Childhood EpilepsiesOnly 14 pages are availabe for public view
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Abstract
The negative impact of epilepsy on learni ng process is well-establ ished; leading to scholastic u
nderachievement, and social mal adjustment. The aim of this work is to shed l ight on the
nat ure of the cognitive deficits and be’1avioral disorders in epileptic patients wit h nonnal
l.Q. To achieve this ai1n, 140 chi ldren with partial epilepsy and
50 control ch i l dren \Vith age frr1111 8 to 16 years were subjected- to a battery of
l aboratory, neu rophysiological, rad iological and psycho1netric assessments.
J<esu/ts: ’!”he pertOrn1ance of the epileptic patients was significantly worse than that of t he
control children in all app l ied psy·cho1netric tests for cognitive abi lities and behavi
ora l charact erist i cs_ The perforn1ance of patients who were on polythera py wa
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significant 11egative
c.orrelnt i ons het\veen the severity of EEG changes and the perfonnance of the appl i ed
psycho111et ric tests fc1r cogn iti ve abil it ies. There Were significant negative correl ations
between t he P:;no l atencie: and the perfonnance of the tests used for evaluation of cognit
ion and behavior
( ’011ch1sion: Epi l epsy has a bad i n1pact on both cognit ive and behavioral
characterist i cs of ch i l dren.