Resumen

BAETA, Élia. Neuropsychological evaluation is essential for epileptic patient diagnosis and treatment. Psicologia [online]. 2002, vol.16, n.1, pp.79-96. ISSN 0874-2049.

In order to create a battery adequated to Portuguese epileptic patients with epilepsy secondarily to temporal or frontal foci, we elaborated a battery of selected cognitive tests. A control group of one hundred and sixty healthy individuals were submitted to this battery in order to collect normative data. Results were analysed according to age, literacy and sex and confirm demographic influences in several tasks. Comparison of groups revealed variation of capacities both on verbal and visual tasks. These findings show the critical importance of neuropsychological tests normalization so as to clearly determine the meaning of results.

Palabras clave : Avaliação neuropsicológica; epilepsia; testes.

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