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Visuoperceptive impairment in adult patients with occipital lobe epilepsies
Epilepsy and Behavior, 06/22/09

Piazzini A et al. – Data confirm that pts with occipital lobe epilepsy (OLE) manifest subtle difficulties in processing and mental manipulation of visual spatial data.

Methods

Study of whether adult OLE pts vs controls are at risk for cognitive impairment
Administration of visuoperceptive domain tests
Subjects: 20 OLE pts and 20 controls, matched to epilepsy group in terms of gender, age, education, and intelligence
Study pts not affected by progressive pathologies, did not receive any medication other than antiepileptic drugs, had no a psychiatric background

Results

Statistically significant difference between OLE pts and controls in these tasks: Perceptive Differences Test, and Object Denomination Test, and Famous Faces Test
No difference between symptomatic and nonsymptomatic pts for neuropsychological results
Linear regression analysis did not show any statistically significant contribution by clinical variables

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