Frontal lobe epilepsy in childhood and memory: a neuropsychological approach

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2011-03-30

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Verche Borges, E., & Hernández Expósito, S. (2011). Frontal lobe epilepsy in childhood and memory: a neuropsychological approach. Revista De Psiquiatría Infanto-Juvenil, 28(1), 63–73. Retrieved from https://aepnya.eu/index.php/revistaaepnya/article/view/180

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Review article

Authors

  • Emilio Verche Borges Departamento de Psicobiología y Metodología de las Ciencias del Comportamiento Facultad de Psicología, Universidad de La Laguna
  • Sergio Hernández Expósito Departamento de Psicobiología y Metodología de las Ciencias del Comportamiento Facultad de Psicología, Universidad de La Laguna

Keywords:

Child epilepsy, developmental neuropsychology, frontal lobe

Abstract

Epilepsy is a health problem of great significance to which devotes a tremendous amount of human and financial resources. Therefore, it is a need to know this disease and its implications in order to give an adequate medical, psychological, social and educational response to those who have this disorder. Neuropsychological assessment in epilepsy is emerging as a necessary tool to help us to understand the cognitive functioning of people with this condition, and effective intervention techniques could be developed thanks to that. Its importance is double in the case of children and adolescents, as they are involved in a learning process and require effective cognitive strategies to achieve the level required in each grade. Traditionally, memory has been studied in temporal lobe epilepsy, but it is little known what happens in other epilepsies. The core objective in this work is to show the different results found in the neuropsychological assessment of memory in frontal lobe epilepsy so a broad view of the neuropsychological implications of this disease could be given.

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