Pediatric hemispherectomy outcome: Adaptive functioning, intelligence, and memory
This study is unique for cohort size, intelligence plus memory testing, and evidence of primacy of verbal over visual-spatial development, despite hemispherectomy side. This study reinforces the role of hemispherectomy in achieving good seizure outcome while preserving functioning.PMID:34537627 | DOI:10.1016/j.yebeh.2021.108298
Source: Epilepsy and Behaviour - Category: Neurology Authors: Hillary A Shurtleff Emma A Roberts Christopher C Young Dwight Barry Mary H Warner Russell P Saneto Robert Buckley Timothy Firman Andrew V Poliakov Richard G Ellenbogen Jason S Hauptman Jeffrey G Ojemann Ahmad Marashly Source Type: research
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