PMID: 11902322Mar 21, 2002Paper

Neuropsychology of epilepsy

Epilepsia
H Matsuoka

Abstract

The neuropsychological approach to epilepsy is indispensable for assessment of cognitive function in an interictal period including pre- and postsurgical evaluation, and for disclosing the semiology of nonconvulsive status epilepticus. Another use of the neuropsychological approach is to identify a seizure-precipitating factor by loading systematic cognitive tasking, termed "neuropsychological EEG activation" (NPA), during standard EEG recordings. In this study, NPA tasks consisted of reading, speaking, writing, written arithmetic calculation, mental arithmetic calculation, and spatial construction. The NPA tasks provoked epileptic discharges in 7.9% of the 480 epileptic patients and were often accompanied by myoclonic seizures. Among the cognitive tasks, mental activities mainly associated with use of the hands [i.e., writing (68.4%), written calculation (55.3%), and spatial construction (63.2%)] provoked the most discharges. Seizure-precipitating mental activities were found to be almost exclusively related to idiopathic generalized epilepsies (IGEs). These results suggest that NPA is a useful tool for examining the relationship between cognitive function and epileptic seizures, and that the IGE patients with myoclonic seizur...Continue Reading

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