Cognitive Impairments in Young Men Suffering from Epilepsy
Abstract
Voitiuk A and Litovchenko T
Epilepsy is a chronic disease of the central system with a wide range of neuropsychiatric disorders. Cognitive disorders are quite common with this disease and significantly reduce the quality of life of patients and their families. In approximately 35% of patients, despite treatment, various impairments of memory, attention and bradyphrenia persist in the interictal period. Causes of cognitive impairment in patients with epilepsy can be directly the underlying factor of epilepsy (genetic disease, structural brain defect, etc.), epileptic seizures, interictal epileptiform activity, side effects of antiepileptic drugs (AEDs). Modern neurophysiological and neuroimaging diagnostic methods allow us to identify new features of the course and progression of dysfunctions of higher nervous activity in epilepsy.