Publications by authors named "Nicole Kavan"
Objective: The prediction of verbal memory decline after temporal lobe epilepsy (TLE) surgery remains difficult at an individual level. We evaluated the prognostic value of postictal memory testing in predicting the postoperative verbal memory function.
Methods: Sixty-three consecutive patients were included in the analysis who underwent TLE surgery at our center with preoperative interictal/postictal and postoperative memory testing.
Article Synopsis
- This study examined neuropsychological assessments for surgical epilepsy patients across 26 European epilepsy centers to create common standards and harmonization.
- There was a strong consensus on the role and importance of neuropsychology in presurgical evaluations, with agreement on key aspects like indications, domains to be assessed, and a core set of tests.
- Despite 186 different tests being utilized, there is a call for improved validity, national norms, and better tools to assess everyday functioning, leading to efforts for a unified testing battery for epilepsy surgical centers in Europe.
To explore the idea of a perceptual distortion of space in spatial neglect, neglect patients, age-matched healthy controls and right hemisphere control patients judged the vanishing point of horizontally and vertically-moving stimuli. Hemifield of presentation and movement direction of the stimulus presentation was manipulated. The results suggest that neglect patients show a stronger response bias in the direction of the moving stimuli ("representational momentum") than healthy and right hemisphere controls.
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