title: [Epilepsy and dementia].
abstract: Epilepsy with higher brain dysfunction (E-HBD) is sometimes associated with dementia. For example, temporal lobe epilepsy may cause amnesia or behavioral abnormality, and the patient resembles an Alzheimer disease or frontotemporal dementia. E-HBD has two types, transient epileptic higher brain dysfunction and persistent. The persistent type is caused by non-convulsive status epileptics (NCSE), or "antiepileptic drug-responsive neurological deficit", and has no evidence of NCSE. We present 3 cases of E-HBD, and suggest anti-epileptic drugs for patients with higher brain dysfunction.
authors.affiliation: Department of Neurology, Showa University School of Medicine, Shinagawa-ku, Tokyo, Japan.
authors.forename: Azusa
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Sugimoto
authors.forename: Akinori
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Futamura
authors.forename: Mitsuru
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Kawamura
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D000647:Amnesia / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000188:drug therapy / Q000209:etiology; D003704:Dementia / Q000150:complications / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000188:drug therapy*; D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D004827:Epilepsy / Q000150:complications / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000188:drug therapy*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D016896:Treatment Outcome