Executive dysfunction in children and adolescents with temporal lobe epilepsy: Is the Wisconsin Card Sorting Test enough?

Epilepsy and Behavior

Volumn 15, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 376-381

  Rzezak, Patricia ^a   Fuentes, Daniel ^a   Guimarães, Catarina A ^b   Thome Souza, Sigride ^a   Kuczynski, Evelyn ^a   Guerreiro, Marilisa ^b   Valente, Kette D R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAMPINAS   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Adolescents; Attention functions; Children; Executive functions; Neuropsychological battery; Temporal lobe epilepsy; Wisconsin Card Sorting Test

Indexed keywords

ANTICONVULSIVE AGENT;

ADOLESCENT; ARTICLE; BRAIN DYSFUNCTION; CHILD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE DURATION; DISEASE RESISTANCE; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; ONSET AGE; PSYCHOLOGIC TEST; SCHOOL CHILD; TEMPORAL LOBE EPILEPSY; WECHSLER INTELLIGENCE SCALE; WISCONSIN CARD SORTING TEST;

ADOLESCENT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ATTENTION; CHILD; COGNITION DISORDERS; CONCEPT FORMATION; EPILEPSY, TEMPORAL LOBE; FEMALE; HUMANS; INHIBITION (PSYCHOLOGY); MALE; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; PROBLEM SOLVING; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SEMANTICS;

EID: 67650461983     PISSN: 15255050     EISSN: 15255069     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.yebeh.2009.04.014     Document Type: Article

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