Gothenburg first and second workshop on epilepsy and memory function: Summing up and concluding remarks

Majkowski, J

doi:10.1111/j.1600-0404.1984.tb05663.x

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“…Behaviour difficulties feature prominently in many reports of children with epilepsy (Rutter el al. 1970, Holdsworth and Whitmore 1974, Mellor and Lowit 1977, Freeman et al 1984. In our study, the children in ability-matched control group B had significantly fewer behavioural changes reported by the teachers than the study children.…”

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“…Seidenberg et al (1986) did not find that the seizure history correlated with any specific characteristics in the educational profile; although, rather surprisingly, they noted that those with both generalised tonic-clonic and absence seizures did less well than any other group. Previous studies of possible effects of anti-epileptic drugs are inconclusive (Andrewes et al 1984, Bennett-Levy and Stores 1984, Majkowski 1984, Seidenberg et al 1986, Trimble and Cull 1988). Our finding that children on benzodiazepines did poorly on tests of reading and rvl 00 a\ vocabulary is almost certainly a reflection of the severity of their seizure disorders Specific EEG abnormalities seem to be of more predictive value.…”

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A Survey of Adolescents With Epilepsy

Clement

Wallace

1990

Develop Med Child Neuro

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SUMMARY Thirty‐four adolescents with epilepsy, controls matched for age and sex (A) and controls matched for age, sex and general ability (B), were studied. The adolescents with epilepsy were more likely to arrive at school by car or taxi and to have more difficult behaviour in class. Competitive sports were less popular with them and significantly fewer anticipated ever driving a car. Illness and parental marital problems were not a feature of their families. Their comprehension of reading material was significantly poorer than that of control group A. Within the group, the lowest over‐all reading scores were found in children with myoclonic seizures, partial seizures with secondary generalisation, or generalised tonic‐clonic seizures; and in those whose EEG findings included two‐per‐second spike and wave, photosensitivity, generalised slow waves, or generalised spike and wave of non‐specific frequency. Right focal slow waves, sharp waves and spikes on EEG were associated with problems of comprehension, even when the over‐all reading score was acceptable. RÉSUMÉ Analyse d'adolescents épileptiques Trente‐quatre adolescents épileptiques, des contrôles appariês pour I'âge et le sexe (A) et des contrôles appariés pour I'âge, le sexe et les capacités générales (B) ont été étudié. Les adolescents épileptiques avaient plus de chance de se rendre á I'école en voiture ou en taxi et présentaient plus souvent un comportement difficile à I'école. Les sports de compétition étaient moins populaires pour eux et un nombre significativement plus faible d'entre eux envisageaient de conduire un jour une voiture. La maladie et les problémes conjugaux chez les parents n'étaient pas plus fréquents. La compréhension de lecture était significativement moins bonne que dans le groupe contrôle A. Dans le groups index, les scores de lecture les plus bas étaient observés chez les enfants avec crises myocloniques, les crises focales avec généralisation secondaire, ou les crises généralisées tonico‐cloniques; et chez ceux qui présentaient à l'EEG des pointe‐ondes à deux cycles par seconde, une photo sensibilité, des ondes lentes généralisées, ou des pointe‐ondes généralisés de féquence non‐spécifique. Les ondes lentes localisées à droite, les ondes à front raide et les pointes à l'EEG étaient associées à des problèmes de compréhension, même lorsque les scores globaux de lecture étaient acceptables. ZUSAMMENFASSUNG Jugendliche mit Epilepsie: eine Ubersicht 34 Jungendliche mit Epilepsie, Kontrollen gleichen Alters und Geschlechts (A) und Kontrollen gleichen Alters, Geschlechts und gleicher allgemeiner Fähigkeiten (B) wurden untersucht. Die Jugendlichen mit Epilepsie kamen häufiger mit dem Auto Oder Taxi zur Schule und zeigten mehr Verhaltensschwierigkeiten im Klassenverband. Wettkampfsport war bei ihnen weniger beliebt und signifikant weniger versuchten überhaupt, selbst Auto zu farhren. Krankheit und elterliche Eheprobleme waren in ihren Familien nicht üblich. Ihr Leseverständnis war signifikant schlechter als bei der Kontrollgruppe A. Innerha...

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A Survey of Adolescents With Epilepsy

Clement

Wallace

1990

Develop Med Child Neuro

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“…Our experimental model provides the opportunity to examine different factors that may influence memory processes: epileptic discharges, seizures, and AED effects (Majkowski, 1984(Majkowski, , 1986Dlawichowska et al, 1989;Majkowski et al, 1990). Administration of CBZ did not influence performance of the well-established CAR in the control group.…”

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Carbamazepine Effects on Afterdischarge, Memory Retrieval, and Conditioned Avoidance Response Latency in Hippocampally Kindled Cats

1994

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Carbamazepine (CBZ) effects on (a) complex partial seizures and afterdischarges (AD), (b) memory retrieval, and (c) conditioned avoidance response (CAR) latencies were studied in a group of 9 hippocampally kindled cats. Significant AD and epileptic seizure suppression was observed in kindled cats after administration of CBZ concurrent with significant improvement in percentage scores on the memory retrieval test. The CAR latencies were longer in kindled cats with or without CBZ than in the conditioned group of cats without both kindling and CBZ. CAR latencies were not significantly different between kindled and kindled-CBZ-treated cats. Thus, the longer latencies in kindled animals cannot be due to CBZ but apparently are related to the effects of kindling. In some kindled animals, longer CAR latencies were reversed by CBZ.

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Gothenburg first and second workshop on epilepsy and memory function: Summing up and concluding remarks

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A Survey of Adolescents With Epilepsy

A Survey of Adolescents With Epilepsy

Carbamazepine Effects on Afterdischarge, Memory Retrieval, and Conditioned Avoidance Response Latency in Hippocampally Kindled Cats

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