Psychometric and Adaptive Abilities in Epilepsy with Differential Etiology

Abstract

SUMMARY Comparisons on an extensive battery of neuropsychological tests including the WAIS and Halstead's measures were made in the following four groups: (N = 51 in each group): 1, controls; 2, patients with verified brain damage but without epilepsy; 3, brain‐damaged patients with epilepsy matched for type of brain damage with the patients in Group 2; 4, patients with epilepsy of unknown etiology matched with the patients in Group 3 for type of seizures. Age and education matches were achieved across the fou…