Lateralising value of neuropsychological protocols for presurgical assessment of temporal lobe epilepsy

N Akanuma, G Alarcón, F Lum, N Kissani… - …, 2003 - Wiley Online Library
Purpose: To estimate the value of neuropsychological measurements in determining the
side of seizure onset for presurgical assessment in patients with temporal lobe epilepsy. The …

Social cognition in frontal lobe epilepsy

A Farrant, RG Morris, T Russell, R Elwes, N Akanuma… - Epilepsy & Behavior, 2005 - Elsevier
This study investigated the social cognitive functioning of patients with frontal lobe epilepsy
(FLE), using a range of procedures that have shown impairments in patients following focal …

Intellectual prognosis of status epilepticus in adult epilepsy patients: analysis with Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale–Revised

N Adachi, K Kanemoto, R Muramatsu, M Kato… - …, 2005 - Wiley Online Library
Purpose: Status epilepticus (SE) appears to cause cognitive dysfunction as well as other
serious neurologic sequelae. To confirm whether SE produces a subsequent intellectual …

[HTML][HTML] Presurgical assessment of memory-related brain structures: the Wada test and functional neuroimaging

N Akanuma, M Koutroumanidis, N Adachi, G Alarcón… - Seizure, 2003 - Elsevier
Medial temporal lobe structures are known to play a major role in memory processing.
Recent work has revealed that extratemporal structures (eg the frontal lobe and thalamus) …

Interictal temporal delta activity in temporal lobe epilepsy: correlations with pathology and outcome

M Koutroumanidis, C Martin‐Miguel, MJ Hennessy… - …, 2004 - Wiley Online Library
Purpose: To determine the characteristics and the clinical significance of focal slow activity
and its association with focal epileptogenesis in patients with temporal lobe epilepsy (TLE) …

Two forms of déjà vu experiences in patients with epilepsy

N Adachi, N Akanuma, M Ito, T Adachi, Y Takekawa… - Epilepsy & Behavior, 2010 - Elsevier
Persons with epilepsy experience déjà vu phenomena with or without seizure recognition.
Déjà vu experiences are also common mental phenomena in nonclinical individuals. The …

Inter-ictal and post-ictal psychoses in frontal lobe epilepsy: a retrospective comparison with psychoses in temporal lobe epilepsy

N Adachi, T Onuma, S Nishiwaki, S Murauchi… - Seizure, 2000 - Elsevier
There have been few studies of the psychopathology of patients with frontal lobe epilepsy
(FLE). The majority of studies of both inter-ictal and post-ictal psychoses have strongly …

Psychiatric comorbidity in adult patients with idiopathic generalized epilepsy

N Akanuma, E Hara, N Adachi, K Hara… - Epilepsy & Behavior, 2008 - Elsevier
We reviewed the medical records of 157 adult (⩾ 18 years) patients with firmly diagnosed
idiopathic generalized epilepsy (IGE) to investigate the extent and the type of psychiatric …

Basic treatment principles for psychotic disorders in patients with epilepsy

N Adachi, K Kanemoto, B de Toffol, N Akanuma… - …, 2013 - Wiley Online Library
In patients with epilepsy, coexisting psychoses, either interictal (IIP) or postictal (PIP), are
associated with serious disturbance in psychosocial function and well‐being, and often …

Duration of postictal psychotic episodes

N Adachi, M Ito, K Kanemoto, N Akanuma… - …, 2007 - Wiley Online Library
Purpose: To clarify duration of postictal psychosis (PIP) episodes and identify factors that
influence its duration. Methods: Fifty‐eight patients with epilepsy exhibited 151 PIP episodes …