Психологическая наука и образование (2007. Online) (Oct 2015)

Mental Development of Children with Non-epileptic Paroxysmal States in Medical History

  • Turovskaya N.G.,

DOI
https://doi.org/10.17759/psyedu.2015070309
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 7, no. 3
pp. 82 – 95

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The author studied mental functions disorders in children with a history of paroxysmal states of various etiologies and compared mental development disorder patterns in patients with epileptic and non-epileptic paroxysms. Study sample were 107 children, aged 6 to 10 years. The study used experimental psychological and neuropsychological techniques. According to the empirical study results, non-epileptic paroxysms unlike epileptic much less combined with a number of mental functions disorders and intelligence in general. However, non-epileptic paroxysmal states as well as epileptic seizure associated with increasing activity exhaustion and abnormal function of the motor analyzer (dynamic and kinesthetic dyspraxia). Visual memory disorders and modal-nonspecific memory disorders have more pronounced importance in the mental ontogenesis structure in children with convulsive paroxysms compared to children with cerebral pathology without paroxysms history

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