Assessment of everyday executive functioning in children with frontal or temporal epilepsies

Campiglia, M.; Seegmüller, Caroline; Gall, Didier Le; Fournet, Nathalie; Roulin, Jean-Luc; Roy, Arnaud

doi:10.1016/j.yebeh.2014.07.023

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“…The BRIEF has been used to assess EF in several pediatric samples, including traumatic brain injury (Mangeot, Armstrong, Colvin, Yeates, & Taylor, ; Vriezen & Pigott, ), attention‐deficit–hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) (Jarratt, Riccio, & Siekierski, ), hydrocephalus (Mahone, Zabel, Levey, Verda, & Kinsman, ), and autism (Gilotty, Kenworthy, Sirian, Black, & Wagner, ; Gioia, Isquith, Kenworthy, & Barton, ). In pediatric epilepsy populations, poor scores on the BRIEF have shown association with everyday executive dysfunction (Campiglia et al., ) and poor health‐related quality of life (Sherman, Slick, & Eyrl, ). Slick, Lautzenhiser, Sherman, and Eyrl () found that a substantial proportion of children with intractable epilepsy display significant EF deficits measured by BRIEF and called for research into the relationship of BRIEF scores to other measures of EF in children with epilepsy to further clarify its clinical utility.…”

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Tested and reported executive problems in children and youth epilepsy

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ObjectivesExecutive problems in children and youth with epilepsy influence their ability to handle important aspects of daily life activities. The present study sought to explore factors associated with executive problems for patients with epilepsy in this age group.MethodsThe cohort consisted of 97 consecutive patients at the National Centre for Epilepsy in Norway, aged 10–19 years, with focal or genetic generalized epilepsy. All underwent tests of executive functions (D‐KEFS), the Behavior Rating Inventory for Executive Function (BRIEF), and screening for psychiatric symptoms, using the Strengths and Difficulties Questionnaire (SDQ).ResultsParent‐reported cognitive executive dysfunction (BRIEF, Metacognitive Index) was the strongest independent predictor for tested executive dysfunction and vice versa. Furthermore, male gender correlated strongest with parent‐reported behavioral regulation problems (BRIEF, Behavioral Regulation Index) along with borderline/pathological score on the SDQ and parent‐reported cognitive executive dysfunction.ConclusionsA strong association between parent‐reported cognitive executive dysfunction and tested executive dysfunction was found. Male gender correlated strongest with parent‐reported behavioral regulation problems. The latter was probably related to a higher frequency of symptoms associated with psychopathology among the boys than the girls. The frequency of executive deficits according to the different modes of measurement varied from 16% to 43%, suggesting that they capture different aspects of behavior under the executive umbrella.

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“…The sample size was determined using the G*power program and using an acceptable statistical significance level at α 5 0.05 with a power set at 80%. The effect size was calculated from a prior study on EFs in children with epilepsy and was 0.29 [7]. The sample size calculation for this study was 69 subjects, 49 participants at Ramathibodi JHR Hospital and 20 participants at Phramongkutklao Hospital based on the statistics of the number of patients at both hospitals from 2015 to 2017.…”

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Selected factors related to behavior control by executive function in Thai preschool children with epilepsy

Panjatharakul

Phuphaibul

Wongvatunyu

et al. 2021

JHR

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PurposeThis descriptive correlational study describes behavior control by executive function (EF) and explores the relationship among age at seizure onset, duration of epilepsy, seizure frequency, number of antiepileptic drugs (AEDs), family income, the caregiver's education, home environment and behavior control by EF in preschool children with epilepsy.Design/methodology/approachThe purposive sample was 69 caregivers of preschool children with epilepsy. Data were collected in two medical centers in Bangkok from June 2019 to February 2020. The research instruments constituted: (1) a sociodemographic and medical information form for children with epilepsy and the caregiver; (2) early childhood-home observation for the measurement of the environment (EC-HOME) inventory and (3) the behavior rating inventory of executive function-preschool version® (BRIEF-P). The data were analyzed using Pearson's product-moment correlation and Spearman's Rho correlation.FindingsMost of the participants had quite high scores on home environment (mean = 44.35) and mildly elevated levels of EF deficit (mean = 61.04). The duration of epilepsy and the number of AEDs were positively correlated with behavior control by EF. Family income was negatively associated with behavior control by EF. However, age at seizure onset, seizure frequency, the caregiver's education and home environment had no association with behavior control by EF.Originality/valuePreschool children with epilepsy have poor behavioral control by EF. Consequently, healthcare providers should promote interventions in children to control seizures and to decrease the factors that impact the development of EF.

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“…Executive function deficits identified by the Behavior Rating Inventory of Executive Function (BRIEF) appear to be particularly associated with temporal and frontal lobe epilepsy groups versus controls, and duration of epilepsy is strongly associated with this finding. 43 In particular, the BRIEF accounts for different variance as compared to the Tower of London. 44 Studies have also shown that the Wisconsin Card Sorting Test is effective in identifying executive function deficits, although it may underestimate impairment.…”

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Neuropsychology's Role in Pediatric Epilepsy Surgery

Shurtleff

2016

J Pediatr Epilepsy

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Neuropsychology plays an essential role in pediatric epilepsy surgery. Evaluations provide information to inform presurgical decision-making by addressing localization and lateralization of deficits and by informing risk of postsurgical decline. The pediatric neuropsychologist also assists with multiple additional procedures, including the Wada or Intracarotid amobarbital procedure, functional magnetic resonance imaging, and brain mapping (on the ward and in the operating room), to measure localization and lateralization of eloquent cortex as well as adequacy of brain tissue to be resected and risk of resection of specific cortex. Neuropsychology provides postsurgical outcome information not only for individual patients, but as ?quality control? for epilepsy surgery. Multiple factors complicate individual patient data interpretation, and these factors are essential to understand and consider. Developmental considerations are paramount. Although methodological differences between studies can also make surgical outcome studies challenging to interpret, neuropsychological data suggest that pediatric surgery can improve developmental outcomes and trajectories, particularly if resection is done early and without lengthy presurgical seizure duration, although longer seizure duration and polypharmacy, more widespread disease, and larger areas of resection, particularly of critical eloquent cortex, can be costly to the individual patient. Additional and more refined research is needed.

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Assessment of everyday executive functioning in children with frontal or temporal epilepsies

Cited by 78 publications

References 48 publications

Tested and reported executive problems in children and youth epilepsy

Tested and reported executive problems in children and youth epilepsy

Selected factors related to behavior control by executive function in Thai preschool children with epilepsy

Neuropsychology's Role in Pediatric Epilepsy Surgery

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