Distúrbios de memória em pacientes epilépticos

• Autor(a) principal: Stella, Florindo [UNESP]
• Data de Publicação: 1999
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Repositório Institucional da UNESP
• Texto Completo: http://dx.doi.org/10.1590/S0004-282X1999000300012; http://hdl.handle.net/11449/65782
• topic: Memory disorders; Neuropsychological evaluation; Temporal lobe epilepsy; adolescent; adult; cognition; female; human; male; memory disorder; middle aged; neuropsychological test; pathophysiology; temporal lobe epilepsy; Adolescent; Adult; Cognition; Epilepsy, Complex Partial; Epilepsy, Temporal Lobe; Female; Humans; Male; Memory Disorders; Middle Aged; Neuropsychological Tests

The author studied the mnemonic activity from epileptic patients with complex partial seizures (CPS), with the aims: 1) to identify memory disorders; and 2) to compare the patients' with the controls' results. Fifty adult patients and 20 subjects without neuropsychiatric disorders were studied. The methods consisted in: 1) investigation of the mnemonic activity through the Wechsler Memory Test (subtests: Storage and Recall, Recent Memory, and Immediate Memory); 2) comparison among the results of both groups; association from mnemonic activity with brain SPECT. In the three subtests, the patients showed cognitive performance significantly lower than the controls (p <0,05). It was found association from reduced blood flow, mainly in left temporal region, with memory impairment of the three subtetsts. The conclusion was that the CPS are associated to memory impairment.