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Lucas, Marcella M.; Lenck-Santini, Pierre-Pascal; Holmes, Gregory L.; Scott, Rod C. – Brain, 2011
One of the most common and serious co-morbidities in patients with epilepsy is cognitive impairment. While early-life seizures are considered a major cause for cognitive impairment, it is not known whether it is the seizures, the underlying neurological substrate or a combination that has the largest impact on eventual learning and memory. Teasing…
Descriptors: Animals, Epilepsy, Mental Retardation, Seizures
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Leventer, Richard J.; Jansen, Anna; Pilz, Daniela T.; Stoodley, Neil; Marini, Carla; Dubeau, Francois; Malone, Jodie; Mitchell, L. Anne; Mandelstam, Simone; Scheffer, Ingrid E.; Berkovic, Samuel F.; Andermann, Frederick; Andermann, Eva; Guerrini, Renzo; Dobyns, William B. – Brain, 2010
Polymicrogyria is one of the most common malformations of cortical development and is associated with a variety of clinical sequelae including epilepsy, intellectual disability, motor dysfunction and speech disturbance. It has heterogeneous clinical manifestations and imaging patterns, yet large cohort data defining the clinical and imaging…
Descriptors: Age, Epilepsy, Mental Retardation, Seizures
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Gonzalez-Monge, Sibylle; Boudia, Baya; Ritz, Annie; Abbas-Chorfa, Fatima; Rabilloud, Muriel; Iwaz, Jean; Berard, Carole – Developmental Medicine & Child Neurology, 2009
Aims: Our aim was to examine intellectual development in children with congenital hemiplegia from early childhood to adolescence. Method: Full-scale IQ (FIQ), Verbal IQ (VIQ), and Performance IQ (PIQ) scores were measured in 32 participants (19 males, 13 females) with congenital hemiplegia at mean ages of 4 years 6 months (SD 7mo; 31…
Descriptors: Intervals, Epilepsy, Females, Intelligence Quotient