Complex partial and secondarily generalized seizure patients: cognitive functioning prior to treatment with antiepileptic medication. VA Epilepsy Cooperative Study 264 Group

Epilepsy Research
M L PreveyR H Mattson

Abstract

This investigation of cognitive functioning in patients with symptomatic localization-related (partial) epilepsy prior to administration of antiepileptic medication is part of a nationwide prospective, double-blind study of drug efficacy and longitudinal changes in cognition associated with seizure disorders. Recently-diagnosed patients with complex partial or secondarily generalized tonic clonic seizures, equated for age, education and IQ, were compared with normal controls on a battery of neuropsychological tests: verbal and figural memory measures (Rey auditory verbal learning test, Rey Osterrieth complex figure), and a brief behavioral toxicity battery comprising measures of motor function, concentration and mental flexibility (Lafayette grooved pegboard, controlled word association test, Stroop, paced auditory serial addition test [PASAT]). Control subjects perform significantly better than both groups of seizure patients on several measures of motor speed/integration and memory, specifically the pegboard and the RAVLT learning (3-5) and recall trials. Secondarily generalized seizure patients show greatest impairment. They perform significantly worse than patients with complex partial seizures and control subjects on the c...Continue Reading

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