“…19 In contrast to the study results of Pinton et al, 31 mild deficits in both receptive and expressive grammar and in vocabulary were found, especially with respect to the verbal expression of emotional relations: patients performed worse than their controls when analyzing the emotional content of a statement, both for verbal and non-verbal elements. As the Heidelberger Speech Development-Test (HSET) may be influenced by social skills, our result may correspond to that of Eggers 55 who described social withdrawal tendencies in children with active epilepsy. Furthermore, and in contrast to the study performed by Northcott et al, 26 our patient group performed more poorly in the derivation of adjectives and the correcting of semantically wrong/illogical sentences.…”