Maria H Eriksson, Freya Prentice, Rory J Piper, Konrad Wagstyl, Sophie Adler, Aswin Chari, John Booth, Friederike Moeller, Krishna Das, Christin Eltze, Gerald Cooray, Ana Perez Caballero, Lara Menzies, Amy McTague, Sara Shavel-Jessop, Martin M Tisdall, J Helen Cross, Patricia Martin Sanfilippo, Torsten Baldeweg
Neuropsychological impairments are common in children with drug-resistant epilepsy. It has been proposed that epilepsy surgery may alleviate these impairments by providing seizure freedom; however, findings from prior studies have been inconsistent. We mapped long-term neuropsychological trajectories in children before and after undergoing epilepsy surgery, to measure the impact of disease course and surgery on functioning. We performed a retrospective cohort study of 882 children who had undergone epilepsy surgery at Great Ormond Street Hospital (1990-2018)...
April 20, 2024: Brain