Cognitive Outcomes After Paediatric Epilepsy Surgery: A Case Series of Six Longitudinal Assessments

Authors

  • Iseult-Ni Lonergan Department of Clinical Neuropsychology, Royal Canal Centre for Brain and Behaviour, Mullingar, Ireland Author
  • Edvard-P Pretnar Department of Neurology, Savinjska Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience, Zalec, Slovenia Author
  • Erik-Olof Alsterberg Department of Developmental Neuroscience, Sormland Centre for Brain and Behaviour, Katrineholm, Sweden Author

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.22677988

Keywords:

Cognitive Outcomes After Paediatric Epilepsy Surgery; Cognitive neuroscience; Neurofeedback; Evidence synthesis; Research methodology

Abstract

Cognitive Outcomes After Paediatric Epilepsy Surgery has moved quickly from a niche scientific question to something a wider
community can now investigate with reasonably reliable tools, but the evidence behind it has not always kept pace. We pull
together the current evidence for cognitive outcomes after paediatric epilepsy surgery, covering the methodological, practical,
regulatory and cost angles, with an eye on where practice has genuinely settled and where researchers and reviewers are still
largely working it out for themselves. Selective, context-specific pursuit looks better supported by the evidence gathered here than
either broad rollout or blanket avoidance

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