Publications by authors named "Viola L Vogt"
Objective: The objective of the study was to evaluate cognitive and epilepsy-related features in 166 surgically treated patients with epilepsy with long-term epilepsy-associated tumors (LEATs) located in the temporal lobe.
Method: Pre- and postsurgical cognitive as well as the one-year seizure outcome of adult patients with histopathologically confirmed LEATs (28 grade-I dysembryoplastic neuroepithelial tumors (DNET), 95 grade-I gangliogliomas (GG), 24 grade-I pilocytic astrocytomas (PA), 9 grade-II pleomorphic xanthoastrocytoma (PXA), 10 grade-II diffuse astrocytoma (DA)) who underwent epilepsy surgery in Bonn/Germany between 1988 and 2012 were evaluated.
Results: At baseline, tumor groups differed in regard to age at epilepsy onset and location within the temporal lobe.
Objective: To compare the effects of different surgical approaches for selective amygdalohippocampectomy in patients with pharmacoresistant mesial temporal lobe epilepsy with regard to the neuropsychological outcome and to replicate an earlier study employing a matched-pair design.
Method: 47 patients were randomised to subtemporal versus transsylvian approaches. Memory, language, attentional and executive functions were assessed before and 1 year after surgery.
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.
Objective: In 2014 the European Union-funded E-PILEPSY project was launched to improve awareness of, and accessibility to, epilepsy surgery across Europe. We aimed to investigate the current use of neuroimaging, electromagnetic source localization, and imaging postprocessing procedures in participating centers.
Methods: A survey on the clinical use of imaging, electromagnetic source localization, and postprocessing methods in epilepsy surgery candidates was distributed among the 25 centers of the consortium.
We describe a 35-year-old male patient presenting with depressed mood and emotional instability, who complained about severe anterograde and retrograde memory deficits characterized by accelerated long-term forgetting and loss of autonoetic awareness regarding autobiographical memories of the last 3 years. Months before he had experienced two breakdowns of unknown etiology giving rise to the differential diagnosis of epileptic seizures after various practitioners and clinics had suggested different etiologies such as a psychosomatic condition, burnout, depression, or dissociative amnesia. Neuropsychological assessment indicated selectively impaired figural memory performance.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFObject: The purpose of this study was to retrospectively assess the objective and subjective neuropsychological outcome after epilepsy surgery in patients with bilateral Ammon's horn sclerosis (AHS).
Methods: Memory and executive functions were evaluated at baseline and at follow-up in 11 surgically treated patients and compared with 8 pharmacologically treated patients with temporal lobe epilepsy and bilateral AHS. The median follow-up duration was 16 months in the surgically treated patients and 80.