© Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2015Kristina Malmgren, Sallie Baxendale and J. Helen Cross (eds.)Long-Term Outcomes of Epilepsy Surgery in Adults and Children10.1007/978-3-319-17783-0_1 1. Why a Volume on Long-Term Outcomes of Epilepsy Surgery? Kristina Malmgren1, 2 , Sallie Baxendale3 and…
© Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2015Kristina Malmgren, Sallie Baxendale and J. Helen Cross (eds.)Long-Term Outcomes of Epilepsy Surgery in Adults and Children10.1007/978-3-319-17783-0_7 7. Long-Term Psychiatric Outcomes After Epilepsy Surgery in Adults Andres M. Kanner1 (1) Department of Neurology,…
Retrospective design Ill-defined study cohort Subjective outcome measures Poorly defined prognostic predictors Follow-up of variable duration across patients Small sample size Absence of masking Changing technologies and procedures Inadequate control…
Fig. 6.1 Neurodevelopmental trajectories of epilepsy surgery candidates (Adapted from: van Schooneveld and Braun [18], by indicating proportions of children showing different postoperative cognitive trajectories): A stable development in parallel…
References Test Pre-drawn clock Time setting Scoring criteria and range Correlation with other measures Goodglass et al. [30] Drawing Yes 1:00, 3:00, 9:15, 7:00 Subject asked to denote four different…
Fig. 9.1 The Test Your Memory (TYM) test 9.3 Administering the TYM Test The TYM test is very easy to administer. Basic training of a new clinic nurse takes about…
Qmci subtest Cognitive domain Description Timing Score Orientation Orientation Five questions; What country, year, month, day, and date? 1 min 10 Registration Working memory Five word registration with three alternative…
Fig. 2.1 Components of a basic test accuracy question with examples. The top row gives the terminology used. Other rows give examples of varying complexity; these include both the traditional…
Fig. 7.1 Scatter plot of the Montreal Cognitive Assessment (MoCA) and the Mini-mental State Examination (MMSE) scores for normal controls (NC) and subjects with Mild Cognitive Impairment (MCI) and mild…
