Objectives: To investigate early and late effects of planned surgically acquired homonymous hemianopias on visual search in children and adolescents.
Methods: This prospective study included five patients (5y 5 m-18y 0 m; 2 girls) with pharmaco-refractory epilepsies in whom one visual hemifield was sacrificed as part of the surgical strategy, and, as controls, seven patients (5y 11 m-18y 0 m; 6 girls) undergoing epilepsy surgeries not affecting the visual fields. Visual search was studied using the "Table Test", which is an everyday life-like visual search test.
This study describes the intellectual development of 75 children and adolescents who underwent hemispherotomy. Furthermore, we aimed to reveal predicting factors on pre- and postsurgical development with a focus on the role of aetiology. We analysed presurgical and six-month postsurgical developmental and intellectual data of 75 patients (age range: 0.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFThe neuropeptide S (NPS) system contributes to the pathogenesis of anxiety. The more active T allele of the functional rs324981 variant in the neuropeptide S receptor gene (NPSR1) is associated with panic disorder (PD) and distorted cortico-limbic activity during emotion processing in healthy adults and PD patients. This study investigated the influence of NPSR1 genotype on fronto-limbic effective connectivity within the developing brain.
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