[Neuropsychological impairment in patients with intracranial aneurysms: surgical versus endovascular treatment].

Objectives: To describe the neuropsychological status of patients with intracranial aneurysms and to compare the cognitive status of patients with intracranial aneurysm treated by surgical or endovascular methods.

Material And Methods: Ninety-three cases with intracranial aneurysms treated with surgery (n = 56) or embolization (n = 37) were included. A neuropsychological assessment was applied to both groups retrospectively, at least one year after treatment.

[Relationship between memory tests and volumetry and relaxometry of the hippocampus].

Introduction And Aims: Interdisciplinary research made by neuropsychologist, neurologists and radiologists is making possible descriptions of the anatomic bases of memory. The hippocampus is one of the main structures related to memory processing. The aim of the present study was to study the relationship between verbal and visual memory, and the volumetry and relaxometry of the.

[The impact exerted by the severity of recreational drug abuse on the different components of the executive function].

Introduction: A number of neuropsychological studies have shown the relationship between severity of drug abuse and the executive functioning of substance abusers, along with its negative impact on treatment results.

Aim: The aim of this study is to examine the relationship between severity of consumption of alcohol, cannabis, cocaine, heroin, amphetamines and ecstasy on the executive processes of fluency, working memory, response inhibition, concept formation and decision-making.

Patients And Methods: Forty poly-substance abusers participated in this study.

[Clinical neuropsychology of the surgery of temporal lobe epilepsy].

Introduction And Objectives: The surgery of epilepsy has become a real alternative for the treatment of patients with drug resistant epilepsy. In this study we review the part played by Clinical Neuropsychology in programmes of surgery for epilepsy, particularly in operations designed to treat drug resistant temporal lobe epilepsy.

Development: Firstly we describe the function of the clinical neurologist in relation to these patients.

[Changes in episodic and semantic memory associated with temporal lobectomy].

Introduction: Temporal lobectomy (TL) is an effective treatment for drug refractory temporal lobe epilepsy. The main neuropsychological consequences of the intervention are changes in episodic and semantic memory. Aim.