Cognitive Deficits at Onset of Epilepsy

Abstract

Neuropsychological functioning and academic achievement were determined at the time of the first seizure in a prospective study of 282 children (ages 6-14 years, with IQ >70) and compared with 147 healthy siblings examined at Indiana University, Case Medical Center, and Cincinnati Children's Hospital.

Keywords

• neuropsychological deficit
• symptomatic/cryptogenic seizure etiology
• absence epilepsy