DYNAMICS OF HIGHER MENTAL FUNCTION CHANGES IN CHILDREN AND ADOLESCENTS WITH PARTIAL FORMS OF EPILEPSY IN CLINICAL REMISSION
https://doi.org/10.15690/pf.v10i3.699
Abstract
Study aim: to study the dynamics of changes of higher mental functions in children and adolescents with partial epilepsy forms. Study participants and methods. The study involved patients 6-16 years of age (15 people). Complex neuropsychological examination of the higher mental functions was conducted in children and adolescents with localized (focal, partial) epilepsy forms. Repeated neuropsychological examination was conducted 1 year later to reveal changes in the preregistered symptoms. Results. The most frequent and pronounced disorders in the primary examination were spatial, kinesthetic and constructive praxis disorders, visual-spatial and acoustic-nonvoice gnosis disorders, increased inhibition of traces, audio-verbal and visual memory constriction, defective order of reproducing words (figures) in stimulus sequence (transient errors), spatial errors in visual-constructive thinking, paragraphia. Thus, higher intensity of symptoms of the functional cerebral block II was registered. Repeated examination 1 year later showed slight changes in symptoms characterizing cerebral block II disorders; more serious changes affected symptoms connected with disorders in cerebral blocks III and I. Conclusions: symptom complexes of the functional block II, directly connected to epileptic nidi, appeared to be more resistant and hardly amenable to involution.
About the Authors
Tinatin Yuzovna Gogberashvili
Pirogov Russian National Medical Research University, Moscow
Scientific Center of Children’s Health, Moscow
Russian Federation
MD, associate professor at Pirogov Russian National Medical Research University of the Ministry of Health of Russia
Russian Federation
MD, associate professor at Pirogov Russian National Medical Research University of the Ministry of Health of Russia
Y. V. Mikadze
Pirogov Russian National Medical Research University, Moscow, Russian Federation
Russian Federation
Russian Federation
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