Avaliação neuropsicológica de crianças com hemiparesia congênita e adquirida--resultados preliminares / Neuropsicologic evaluation of children with congenital and acquired hemyparesis--early results
Acta cir. bras
;
20(supl.1): 51-56, 2005.
Artigo
em Português
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ABSTRACT
PURPOSE: To present the preliminary results of neuropsychological assessment for children with congenital and acquired hemiparesis with or not seizures. METHODS: Nine children at a age of 5 and 14 years old, were studied individually by one battery of test to neuropsychological assessment of cognitive function, language, gnosia, praxia visuo-motor and memory processing and emotional aspect. RESULTS: Children with hemiparesis demonstrated minimal or severe cognitive dysfuctions, impaired language abilities, poor visuo-motor and memory processing and alteration in emotional aspect. Acquired hemiparesis with seizures in childhood had a severe cognitive deficits, but congenital hemiparesis with or not seizures the neuropsychological assessment demonstrate minimal or moderate cortical deficits. CONCLUSIONS: Theses preliminary results demonstrated that congenital or acquired hemiparesis associated or not with seizures present cortical dysfuctions. The worst results was observed in acquired hemiparesis with epileptic seizures.
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Assunto principal:
Paresia
/
Desempenho Psicomotor
/
Desenvolvimento Infantil
Limite:
Adolescente
/
Criança
/
Criança, pré-escolar
/
Feminino
/
Humanos
/
Masculino
Idioma:
Português
Revista:
Acta cir. bras
Assunto da revista:
Cirurgia Geral
/
Procedimentos Cir£rgicos Operat¢rios
Ano de publicação:
2005
Tipo de documento:
Artigo
País de afiliação:
Brasil
Instituição/País de afiliação:
UFRN/BR
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