title: [Epilepsy and learning].
abstract: This report deals with cerebral processing in terms of simultaneous and successive processing in a sample of 33 epileptic children at ages 3 to 12 years. Epileptic children were selected according to the following criteria: two clinical seizures with convulsive movements, with unconsciousness, with no fever, with focus in intercritical EEG and normal brain scanner. All of them attended ordinary school. A sample of 261 normal children was used as a control group. The K-ABC battery was administered to both epileptic and control group. The results were analyzed in terms of Student's t-test, chi 2 test, stratified chi 2 test, and factor analysis. It is concluded that a kind of epilepsy may be associated with poorer performance in successive processing.
authors.affiliation: Servicio de Pediatría, Hospital ICS Dr. J. Trueta, Girona.
authors.forename: F
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Pérez-Alvarez
authors.forename: C
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Timoneda
mesh_terms: D002648:Child; D002675:Child, Preschool; D004827:Epilepsy / Q000150:complications*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007806:Language Disorders / Q000209:etiology; D007859:Learning Disabilities / Q000209:etiology*; D008297:Male
vernacular_title: Epilepsia y aprendizaje.