Executive functions in patients with frontal and temporal lobe epilepsy / 中华行为医学与脑科学杂志
Chinese Journal of Behavioral Medicine and Brain Science
; (12): 407-409, 2012.
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ObjectiveTo investigate the executive functions of the frontal and temporal lobe epilepsy patients.MethodsFifty-five epilepsy patients (twenty-five frontal lobe epilepsy patients and thirty temporal lobe epilepsy patients) and fifty age,gender and education matched healthy controls were evaluated by means of Mini Mental State Examination ( MMSE ).Executive function was assessed using Stroop color words test and trail making test.ResultsMMSE total score of frontal and temporal lobe epilepsy patients were ( 26.02 ± 0.30) and (25.82 ± 0.67 ),respectively.There was significant abnormality between epilepsy patients and the controls (P <0.05).Compared with normal control group,FLP group and TLP group took longer time and their score was lower in stroop color words test (P<0.05).There were significant difference between FLP and TLP on card B and C's reading time,correct number and strcop interference effects (P<0.05).The epilepsy patients performed significantly worse than the controls in whole trail making test (P<0.05).The scores indicate that the TLE group outperformed the FLE group on all analysis values (P < 0.05 ).ConclusionThe frontal and temporal lobe epilepsy patients have executive function deficit.The FLE group has prominent deficits in executive functioning.
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Chinese Journal of Behavioral Medicine and Brain Science
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2012
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