“Deterioro de la memoria en pacientes con epilepsia”

Abstract

The present study emphasized the importance of the neuropsychological study of the patients diagnosed with epilepsy. The general objective was determine if exist impairment of memory in patients with epilepsy. It was a descriptive cross-sectional study. It has been carried out with a random sample of 50 patients attended at an outpatient clinic of the Hospital Provincial General Latacunga. The patients was over 18 years of age with a diagnosis of epilepsy older than 1 year. The research instrument used was the España - Complutense verbal learning test (TAVEC), specific for the evaluation of memory and learning ability in patients with and without brain damage.

In the process of the investigation, we verified the hypothesis 1 on the existence of memory impairment in patients with epilepsy, since the majority of patients evaluated showed scores of the standard deviation in reference to healthy patients of the same age in several subtest of TAVEC