Tests of Attention in Newly Diagnosed Idiopathic Epilepsy

Abstract

Performance on tests of Reaction Time, Color Trails, Manual Tapping and Steadiness, and Sustained Attention were compared in 51 children with epilepsy (age 7-16 years) and 48 healthy classmates, in a study at Wilhelmina Children’s Hospital, Utrecht, the Netherlands.

Keywords

• newly diagnosed idiopathic epilepsy
• behavior difficulties
• antiepileptic medications