Although the causes of cognitive impairment in patients with epilepsy have not been completely
elucidated, three factors are clearly involved: the underlying etiology of epilepsy, the …

OBJECTIVE: The aim of this review is to increase understanding of the factors that affect the
regular employment positions of people with epilepsy by means of the World Health …

PURPOSE: From a social interactional and ecological framework, studies were reviewed that
(1) compared family factors in children with epilepsy with those in children from normative …

Objective To examine the types and severity of psychopathology in children with epilepsy.
Methods A series of meta-analyses were conducted to review 46 studies, including 2,434 …

Introduction Psychogenic non-epileptic seizures (PNES) resemble epileptic seizures, but lack
epileptiform brain activity. Instead, the cause is assumed to be psychogenic. An abnormal …

Antiepileptic drug (AED) treatment may last a lifetime in many patients. During such treatment
a variety of side-effects may occur. Some may appear immediately, possibly showing some …

Antiepileptic drugs (AEDs) have many benefits but also many side effects, including
aggression, agitation, and irritability, in some patients with epilepsy. This article offers a …

Working memory is a temporary storage system under attentional control. It is believed to
play a central role in online processing of complex cognitive information and may also play a …

… in terms of sex (p = 0.8.22), age at assessment (p = 0.980), or education (p = 0.192). There
… type (p = 0.155), number of seizures at baseline (p = 0.101), or age at first seizure (p = 0.542…

In this article we review the existing evidence on the cognitive impact of interictal epileptiform
EEG discharges. Such cognitive impairment occurs exclusively in direct relation to …