Abstract
Researchers at the Institute of Child Health, London; Epilepsy Center, University of Edinburgh; and Dartmouth Medical School, New Hampshire, US studied memory abilities in 26 children (mean age 23 months, SD 12.6 months) after prolonged febrile seizures (median, 37.5 days), and compared to 37 normal controls.
Highlights
The authors suggest that, based on neuroimaging studies, the task slowness of children with absence epilepsy could be due to dysfunction of dorsolateral prefrontal circuits and other frontal regions, including the anterior cingulate, orbito-frontal and motor/premotor regions
In this study concerning the effects of prolonged febrile seizures on recognition memory, a visual paired comparison task employing faces was used to test memory abilities in small infants
The brain region associated with prosopagnosia is usually stated as the fusiform gyrus or an occipito-temporal location, contiguous with the hippocampal gyrus, the location emphasized in the above study
Summary
Researchers at the University of Rome, Italy studied executive function and attention in 15 children with childhood absence epilepsy (CAE) (8 boys, 7 girls), under treatment with valproic acid, compared to healthy controls. CAE and control groups show no significant differences in scores of tests of intellectual functioning and memory but large differences in total time of planning, verbal fluency, and attention. This study involves patients whose clinical and EEG seizures are completely controlled.
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