Study of cognitive function impairment in 45 patients with epilepsy
- VernacularTitle:癫痫患者认知功能障碍45例临床分析
- Author:
ling-xiao, WANG
;
ling, MIAO
- Publication Type:Journal Article
- Keywords:
epilepsy;
cognition impairment;
neuropsychological tests
- From:Journal of Shanghai Jiaotong University(Medical Science)
2006;0(10):-
- CountryChina
- Language:Chinese
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Abstract:
Objective To investigate the characteristics of cognitive function impairment in patients with epilepsy. Methods Forty-five epilepsy patients and twenty age-,gender-,and education-matched healthy controls were submitted to a wide neuropsychological battery,including Raven's standard progressive matrices,auditory verbal memory test,logical memory test,visual memory test,Stroop color words test,trail making test,verbal fluency test,Boston naming test,math and complex figure test,etc. Results The epilepsy patients performed significantly worse than the controls in the verbal delayed memory,verbal short memory,cued recall,immediated recall of logical memory test,visual spatial memory,attention,information processing speed test,word finding difficulty and logical reasoning.Conclusion There exists impairment in various cognitive domains in patients with epilepsy,and the main impaired areas are memory,executive functions and logical reasoning.
