Titlebook: Handbook on the Neuropsychology of Epilepsy; William B. Barr,Chris Morrison Book 2015 Springer Science+Business Media New York 2015 Brain

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Neuropsychological Assessment of Patients with Epilepsy,hologists in practice settings. Clinical neuropsychologists play important roles in epilepsy specialty centers by providing information that is useful for diagnosis, outlining functional strengths and weaknesses, and tracking the effects of various treatments. This chapter introduces the reader to m

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Evaluation of Children and Adolescents with Epilepsy,ifficulties have a higher base rate in children with epilepsy than in healthy children, and in some children, cognitive difficulties may predate first seizure (Fastenau et al., 2009). For this reason, neuropsychological assessment is helpful in identifying strengths and weaknesses in children with e

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Neuropsychological Evaluation of the Epilepsy Surgical Candidate,ugs (AEDs). The probability that a patient with epilepsy will be successfully treated with an AED greatly diminishes after two drug trial failures (Kwan & Brodie, 2000), and such patients are typically considered for surgical intervention (Kwan et al., 2010). Neuropsychological assessment is an inte

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The Wada Test: Current Perspectives and Applications, language laterality, it was subsequently modified by including a memory component to estimate postoperative risk to recent memory function following unilateral temporal lobe resection. This chapter will briefly review the use of Wada testing, discuss the various approaches used to transiently anest

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Electrocortical Mapping of Language,y of electrocortical language mapping in the context of a planned surgical resection and then focuses on the pragmatics of knowing why, when, and how to perform this procedure both at the bedside and in the operating room. We summarize the indications for language mapping, pre-mapping procedures, st

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Structural and Quantitative MRI in Epilepsy,to establishing an initial diagnosis (idiopathic, cryptogenic, or symptomatic) and determining options for treatment. MRI studies are especially critical in focal epilepsy, as resective surgery of an epileptogenic lesion has the potential to render many patients seizure-free (Engel, 1996; Wiebe, Blu

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Functional MRI in the Presurgical Epilepsy Evaluation,2009; D‘Esposito, 2000) and contributed to the evaluation and treatment of patients with neurological disorders (Bookheimer, 2007; Detre, 2006; Freilich & Gaillard, 2010). Understanding how and when to use functional localization methods such as fMRI in combination with or as an alternative to more

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MEG in the Presurgical Epilepsy Evaluation,on for medically intractable epilepsy. Below, we review the critical conceptual and practical details of MEG data collection and analysis, and the emerging literature on its role in localization of language and memory functions in presurgical epilepsy evaluations.

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Evaluation of Psychiatric and Personality Disorders, self-report measures, psychiatric interviews, and self-identification as having a particular disorder. Despite the fact that different methodologies and samples have been used across the literature, there is significant evidence to support the overall conclusion that there are higher rates of Axis