To assess the cognitive function and language ability in children with benign partial epilepsy with centrotemporal spikes. Twenty-five patients with benign partial epilepsy with centrotemporal spikes were included. They were divided into two subgroups. Group I: 10 patients with rolandic focus who were not treated. Group II: 15 patients with rolandic focus receiving treatment. A third Group of 12 healthy subjects have been studied. All children underwent standardized neuropsychological testing: electroencephalogram recording, Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children-revised, Peabody Picture Vocabulary Test-III (PPVT-III) and Boston Naming Test (BNT), both during active disease (T1) and 2 years after recovery from epilepsy (T2). At T1 evaluation, no significant differences in group I and II patients about general intelligence, when compared with controls, were found. Group I and II patients were impaired with respect to controls in the receptive and expressive vocabulary evaluated with PCVT-III and BNT, respectively. At T2 evaluation, group I and II patients showed a normalization of the language abnormalities. Deficits of speech-related abilities can be detected in children with this type of epilepsy: these dysfunctions seem to be independent of the effects of antiepileptic treatment and are reversible after remission of epilepsy. © 2011 The Author(s)/Acta Paediatrica © 2011 Foundation Acta Paediatrica.
Cognitive and linguistic abnormalities in benign childhood epilepsy with centrotemporal spikes / A., Verrotti; C., Degidio; S., Agostinelli; Parisi, Pasquale; F., Chiarelli; G., Coppola. - In: ACTA PAEDIATRICA. - ISSN 1651-2227. - STAMPA. - 100:5(2011), pp. 768-772. [10.1111/j.1651-2227.2011.02159.x]
Titolo: | Cognitive and linguistic abnormalities in benign childhood epilepsy with centrotemporal spikes | |
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Data di pubblicazione: | 2011 | |
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Citazione: | Cognitive and linguistic abnormalities in benign childhood epilepsy with centrotemporal spikes / A., Verrotti; C., Degidio; S., Agostinelli; Parisi, Pasquale; F., Chiarelli; G., Coppola. - In: ACTA PAEDIATRICA. - ISSN 1651-2227. - STAMPA. - 100:5(2011), pp. 768-772. [10.1111/j.1651-2227.2011.02159.x] | |
Handle: | http://hdl.handle.net/11573/354160 | |
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