assessment of frontal and temporal lobe functions in some idiopathic generalized epileptic syndromes and seizures

ABSTRACT

This study was conducted to evaluate some psychometric parameters in patients with idiopathic epilepsy. It was carried out on 2 groups group 1 was subdivided into a 40 patients with idiopathic generalized epileptic syndromes, b 10 patients with idiopathic epilepsies not fulfilling the criteria of syndromic classification. Group 2 [control group] 20 healthy persons. The 2 groups were subjected to full clinical examination, EEG examination, neuroimaging and certain psychometric tests concerned in the assessment of frontal and temporal lobe functions. There was significant decline in language and normal performance in trail making test. While the temporal functions showed significant decline in general and visual memory and delay recall. This study may suggest that idiopathic generalized epilepsy is not uniformly benign condition