Long-Term Psychiatric and Behavior Outcomes in Children Following Epilepsy Surgery
Preoperative (total 60) Postoperative (total 57) Affected at any time PDD 23 (38 %) 21 (37 %) 23 (38 %) ADHD 14 (23 %) 13 (23 %) 16 (27…
NEUROLOGY
Why a Volume on Long-Term Outcomes of Epilepsy Surgery?
© 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…
Long-Term Psychiatric Outcomes After Epilepsy Surgery in Adults
© 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,…
Methodological Demands on Observational Studies of Outcomes After Epilepsy Surgery
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…
Long-Term Cognitive Outcomes After Epilepsy Surgery in Children
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…
Clock Drawing Test
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…
TYM (Test Your Memory) Testing
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…
The Quick Mild Cognitive Impairment Screen (Qmci)
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…
Assessment of the Utility of Cognitive Screening Instruments
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…
