Intellectual functioning in presurgical patients with hypothalamic hamartoma and refractory epilepsy

Epilepsy and Behavior

Volumn 13, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 149-155

  Prigatano, George P ^a   Wethe, Jennifer V ^a   Gray, Jennifer A ^a   Wang, Norman ^a   Chung, Steven ^a   Ng, Yu Tze ^a   Prenger, Erin ^a   Kerrigan, John F ^a  

^a BARROW NEUROLOGICAL INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

Epilepsy; Hypothalamic hamartoma; Intellectual test performance; Neuroanatomical features

Indexed keywords

ANTICONVULSIVE AGENT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; CHILD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COGNITIVE DEFECT; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; EPILEPSY; FEMALE; GROUPS BY AGE; HAMARTOMA; HUMAN; HYPOTHALAMUS TUMOR; INTELLECTUAL IMPAIRMENT; INTELLIGENCE QUOTIENT; LINGUISTICS; MALE; MENTAL PERFORMANCE; MENTAL TEST; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; NEUROSURGERY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PATHOLOGICAL ANATOMY; PRECOCIOUS PUBERTY; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; PSYCHOMETRY; SCORING SYSTEM; TUMOR VOLUME; WECHSLER INTELLIGENCE SCALE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANTICONVULSANTS; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; COGNITION; EPILEPSY; FEMALE; HAMARTOMA; HUMANS; HYPOTHALAMIC DISEASES; INTELLIGENCE; INTELLIGENCE TESTS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS;

EID: 46549085947     PISSN: 15255050     EISSN: 15255069     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.yebeh.2008.02.016     Document Type: Article

References (29)

1. Kerrigan J.F., Ng Y.T., Chung S., and Rekate H.L. The hypothalamic hamartoma: a model of subcortical epileptogenesis and encephalopathy. Semin Pediatr Neurol 12 (2005) 119-131
2. Berkovic S.F., Andermann F., Melanson D., Ethier R.E., Feindel W., and Gloor P. Hypothalamic hamartomas and ictal laughter: evolution of a characteristic epileptic syndrome and diagnostic value of magnetic resonance imaging. Ann Neurol 23 (1988) 429-439
3. Frattali C.M., Liow K., Craig G.H., et al. Cognitive deficits in children with gelastic seizures and hypothalamic hamartoma. Neurology 57 (2001) 43-46
4. Nguyen D., Singh S., Zaatreh M., et al. Hypothalamic hamartomas: seven cases and review of the literature. Epilepsy Behav 4 (2003) 246-258
5. Quiske A., Frings L., Wagner K., Unterrainer J., and Schulze-Bonhage A. Cognitive functions in juvenile and adult patients with gelastic epilepsy due to hypothalamic hamartoma. Epilepsia 47 (2006) 153-158
6. Prigatano GP, Wethe JV, Rekate HL, et al. Neuropsychological dysfunction in patients with hypothalamic hamartomas and refractory epilepsy. In: Abstracts from the 2006 Annual Meeting of the American Epilepsy Society and the Canadian League against Epilepsy (1st North American Regional Epilepsy Congress).
7. Deonna T., and Ziegler A.L. Hypothalamic hamartoma, precocious puberty and gelastic seizures: a special model of "epileptic" developmental disorder. Epileptic Disord 2 (2000) 33-37
8. Schoenfeld J., Seidenberg M., Woodard A., et al. Neuropsychological and behavioral status of children with complex partial seizures. Dev Med Child Neurol 41 (1999) 724-731
9. Kolfen W., Edrich J., Konig S., and Formanski U. Children with epilepsy after withdrawal of anticonvulsive therapy: psychiatric behavior and neurological abilities. Eur J Pediatr 160 (2001) 566-571
10. Buelow J.M., Austin J.K., Perkins S.M., Shen J., Dunn D., and Fastenau P.S. Behavior and mental health problems in children with epilepsy and low IQ. Dev Med Child Neurol 45 (2003) 683-692
11. Austin J.K., and Caplan R. Behavioral and psychiatric comorbidities in pediatric epilepsy: toward an integrative model. Epilepsia 28 (2007) 1639-1651
12. Prigatano G.P. Cognitive and behavioral dysfunction in children with hypothalamic hamartoma and epilepsy. Semin Pediatr Neurol 14 (2007) 65-72
13. Meador K.J. Cognitive side effects of medications. Neurol Clin North Am 16 (1998) 141-155
14. Wechsler D. Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children. Third edition. Administration and scoring manual (1991), Psychological Corp., San Antonio
15. Wechsler D. Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale. Third edition. Administration and scoring manual (1997), Psychological Corp., San Antonio
16. Wechsler D. Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children. Fourth edition. Administration and scoring manual (2003), Psychological Corp., San Antonio
17. Wechsler D. Wechsler Preschool and Primary Scale of Intelligence-Revised: administration and scoring manual (1998), Psychological Corp., San Antonio
18. Delalande O., and Fohlen M. Disconnecting surgical treatment of hypothalamic hamartoma in children and adults with refractory epilepsy and proposal of a new classification. Neurol Med Chir 43 (2003) 61-68
19. Matarazzo J.D. Wechsler's measurement and appraisal of adult intelligence. 5th ed. (1972), Williams & Wilkins, Baltimore
20. Prigatano G.P., Gagliardi C., Wethe J., and Borgaro S. The neuropsychological examination of children with hypothalamic hamartomas: preliminary observations. Barrow Q 20 (2004) 17-30
21. Keppel G., and Zedeck S. Data analysis for research designs: analysis of variance and multiple regression/correlation approaches (1989), Freeman, New York
22. SPSS Base 8.0 for Windows user's guide. Chicago: SPSS Inc.; 1998.
23. Dodrill C.B. Progressive decline in adolescents and adults with epilepsy. Prog Brain Res 135 (2002) 399-407
24. Hermann B.P., Seidenberg M., Dow C., et al. Cognitive prognosis in chronic temporal lobe epilepsy. Ann Neurol 60 (2006) 80-87
25. Saper C.B. The hypothalamus. In: Paxinos G., and Mai J.K. (Eds). The human nervous system. 2nd ed. (2004), Elsevier Academic Press, Amsterdam 513-550
26. Freeman J.L., Coleman L.T., Wellard R.M., et al. MR imaging and spectroscopic study of epileptogenic hypothalamic hamartomas: analysis of 72 cases. AJNR Am J Neuroradiol 25 (2004) 450-462
27. Kupfermann I. Hypothalamus and the limbic system. In: Kandell E., Schwartz J.H., and Jessel T.M. (Eds). Principles of neural sciences. 3rd ed. (1991), Elsevier, Amsterdam 443-460
28. Muir A. Precocious puberty. Pediatr Rev 27 (2006) 373-380
29. Jung H., Probst N., Hauffa B.P., Partsch C.J., and Dammann O. Association of morphological characteristics with precocious puberty and/or gelastic seizures in hypothalamic hamartoma. J Clin Endocr Metab 88 (2003) 4590-4595