AG Helmstädter
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Sigmund-Freud-Straße 25 FRG-53105 Bonn Germany Tel. 0228 / 287-1- 6108Fax 0228 / 287-1- 6294 Email: christoph.helmstaedter@ukb.uni-bonn.de |
Prof. Dr. phil. Christoph Helmstaedter, Dipl.-Psych.
Neuropsychology
From the beginning, the understanding of brain function and dysfunction in epilepsy was based on contributions from an interdisciplinary network of neurophysiologists, neuropathologists, neuroradiologists and neuropsychologists.
Since brain surgery has become a major therapeutical option particularly in pharmacoresistant forms of epilepsy, there is growing interest in the role of neuropsychology in Germany as well.
Epilepsy surgery is elective in the majority of cases and thus requires particularly safe surgical procedures with minimal or better no negative cognitive side effects for the patients.
First of all, neuropsychology aims at the detection of dynamic and chronic cognitive deficits due to epileptic dysfunction and underpinning brain lesion. In this respect neuropsychology is lateralization- and localisation diagnostics as well as differential diagnostics in order to disentangle the different factors which affect cognition. Other aspects are estimation of reserve capacities and hemispheric dominance of language and memory functions. Aspects of quality control in conservatively and operatively treated patients have become a further important concern.
Taken together, neuropsychological evaluation has become an essential part in diagnosis and outcome control of therapeutic interventions in epilepsy flanking neurological and psychosocial criteria.
Downloads:
> Neuropsychologie bei Epilepsie (German, pdf)
> Neuropsychologische Diagnostik bei Epilepsie (German, pdf)
> Neuropsychology in Epilepsy (pdf)
> Chronic Temporal Lobe Epilepsy and Memory (pdf)
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