Pretreatment cognitive deficits and treatment effects on attention in childhood absence epilepsy

• Published in: Neurology Vol. 81; no. 18; p. 1572
• Main Authors: Masur, David, Shinnar, Shlomo, Cnaan, Avital, Shinnar, Ruth C, Clark, Peggy, Wang, Jichuan, Weiss, Erica F, Hirtz, Deborah G, Glauser, Tracy A
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: United States 29.10.2013
• Subjects: Adolescent; Analysis of Variance; Anticonvulsants - therapeutic use; Attention Deficit Disorder with Hyperactivity - drug therapy; Attention Deficit Disorder with Hyperactivity - etiology; Child; Child, Preschool; Cognition Disorders - etiology; Cohort Studies; Double-Blind Method; Educational Status; Electroencephalography; Epilepsy, Absence - complications; Executive Function; Female; Humans; Male; Neuropsychological Tests; Treatment Outcome

To determine the neurocognitive deficits associated with newly diagnosed untreated childhood absence epilepsy (CAE), develop a model describing the factorial structure of items measuring academic achievement and 3 neuropsychological constructs, and determine short-term differential neuropsychologica...