title: Presurgical neuropsychological testing predicts cognitive and seizure outcomes after anterior temporal lobectomy.
abstract: We sought to determine significant predictors of seizure and cognitive outcome following surgery for epilepsy. Participants included 41 patients who had undergone anterior temporal lobectomy (ATL). Higher presurgical verbal/language scores and lower nonverbal memory scores were predictive of seizure-free status following ATL. Overall, the presurgical predictors were 93% accurate in discriminating between seizure-free and non-seizure-free patients postsurgery. Surgery in the nondominant-for-language hemisphere was predictive of higher postsurgical verbal/language and verbal memory scores. Higher presurgical visual/construction, nonverbal memory, and verbal/language scores were predictive of better postsurgical verbal/language functioning. Better presurgical verbal/language functioning was predictive of the same skills postsurgically as well as visual/construction outcomes. Exploratory analyses in a subset of participants (n=25) revealed that dominant and nondominant intracarotid amobarbital (Wada) memory scores added unique variance only for predicting nonverbal memory following ATL. Presurgical neuropsychological testing provides significant and unique information regarding postsurgical seizure freedom and cognitive outcome in patients who have undergone ATL.
authors.affiliation: Department of Behavioral Medicine and Clinical Psychology, Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati, OH 45229, USA. jennifer.potter@cchmc.org
authors.forename: Jennifer Loyden
authors.initials: JL
authors.lastname: Potter
authors.forename: Bruce K
authors.initials: BK
authors.lastname: Schefft
authors.forename: Dean W
authors.initials: DW
authors.lastname: Beebe
authors.forename: Steven R
authors.initials: SR
authors.lastname: Howe
authors.forename: Hwa-Shain
authors.initials: HS
authors.lastname: Yeh
authors.forename: Michael D
authors.initials: MD
authors.lastname: Privitera
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D038481:Anterior Temporal Lobectomy; D003071:Cognition / Q000502:physiology*; D004827:Epilepsy / Q000503:physiopathology* / Q000601:surgery*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008568:Memory; D008875:Middle Aged; D009483:Neuropsychological Tests; D011183:Postoperative Complications; D011237:Predictive Value of Tests; D011300:Preoperative Care; D011446:Prospective Studies; D012372:ROC Curve; D012044:Regression Analysis; D012720:Severity of Illness Index; D016896:Treatment Outcome; D055815:Young Adult