Publications by authors named "Selin Yagcı Kurtish"
The aim of this study was to conduct item reduction of the Memory Assessment Clinics Self-Rating Scale (MAC-S) to create a briefer measure that can be used to quickly evaluate subjective memory complaints in patients with epilepsy. A total of 1333 adults with focal epilepsy completed the original 49-item MAC-S. The sample was randomly split into three subsamples, and a series of analyses (i.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFObjectives: Our study aims to compare demographics, clinical features and postsurgical outcomes between early and late-onset patients with medically refractory temporal lobe epilepsy (TLE) related to mesial temporal sclerosis (MTS).
Patients And Methods: Seventy-one patients admitting to the Epilepsy Clinic of Istanbul University-Cerrahpasa, Cerrahpasa Faculty of Medicine between 1995-2015, who were diagnosed with refractory TLE related to MTS, were included in our study. All of these patients were resistant to medical treatment, and thus candidates for, or underwent surgery, and had no pathology other than MTS in their cranial magnetic resonance imaging (MRI).
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.