ASSESSMENT OF SPECIFIC LEARNING DISORDERS IN SCHOOL CHILDREN WITH IDIOPATHIC EPILEPSY | ||
| ALEXMED ePosters | ||
| Article 1, Volume 6, Issue 1, January 2024, Pages 28-29 | ||
| Document Type: Preliminary preprint short reports of original research | ||
| DOI: 10.21608/alexpo.2024.269607.1784 | ||
| Authors | ||
| Horeya SaadAllah1; Heba Essam2; Dina Gaber3; Rehab Mohamed Abdelall* 4 | ||
| 1Department of Neuropsychiatry‏ ‏,Faculty of Medicine, University of Alexandria. | ||
| 2Department of Neuropsychiatry‏ ‏Faculty of Medicine Alexandria University | ||
| 3Department of Neuropsychiatry‏ ‏Faculty of Medicine ,Alexandria University | ||
| 4Department of Neuropsychiatry ,Faculty of Medicine, Alexandria University | ||
| Abstract | ||
| Introduction: Epilepsy is one of the commonest neurological disorders in childhood with an estimated prevalence in 4-5/1,000. According to epidemiological studies in Egypt, epilepsy affect four per thousand children of school age. Of these about one third can be regarded as having active epilepsy, having had a seizure in past 24 months, two thirds have been seizure free in past 24 months. Cognitive impairment occurs more frequently in children with epilepsy than in children without epilepsy. The underlying causes of cognitive impairment are generally complex and multifactorial. Age at onset of epilepsy, seizure type and frequency, ongoing subclinical epileptiform discharges, and duration of epilepsy are known to impact on the cognitive impairment in children with epilepsy. It is well known that learning disorders are more common in people with epilepsy than in the general population. The extent to which epilepsy impacts the learning depends on seizure frequency, location of seizure activity in the brain, and how much of the brain is involved. | ||
| Keywords | ||
| SLD; IDIOPATHIC EPILEPSY; SCHOOL CHILDREN | ||
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