Executive dysfunction in children and adolescents with temporal lobe epilepsy: is the Wisconsin Card Sorting Test enough?
P Rzezak, D Fuentes, CA Guimarães… - Epilepsy & Behavior, 2009 - Elsevier
The Wisconsin Card Sorting Test (WCST) is the gold standard in the evaluation of executive
dysfunction (ED) in patients with temporal lobe epilepsy (TLE). We evaluated 35 children
with TLE and 25 healthy controls with the WCST and with a more comprehensive battery.
Among the children with TLE, 77.14% showed impairment on the WCST. On other tests
(Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children—Digit Forward, Matching Familiar Figures Test,
Trail Making Test, Word Fluency, Finger Windows, and Number–Letter Memory), impairment …
dysfunction (ED) in patients with temporal lobe epilepsy (TLE). We evaluated 35 children
with TLE and 25 healthy controls with the WCST and with a more comprehensive battery.
Among the children with TLE, 77.14% showed impairment on the WCST. On other tests
(Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children—Digit Forward, Matching Familiar Figures Test,
Trail Making Test, Word Fluency, Finger Windows, and Number–Letter Memory), impairment …