Can epilepsy affect intelligence

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I suffered from epilepsy in my twenties, and now I have recovered. This disease is very harmful. It took me several years to gradually control the disease. Now let's see if epilepsy can affect intelligence.

Can epilepsy affect intelligence

First of all: some patients' intelligence has been affected to some extent. Different causes of epilepsy may have different effects on the intelligence of patients. Some causes of epilepsy itself is often accompanied by mental disorders. Such as brain hypoplasia, patients are both mental retardation, and seizures, mental retardation and seizures are the same performance of brain hypoplasia.

Second: encephalitis, meningitis, toxic encephalopathy, hypoxic encephalopathy caused by epilepsy can also be combined with mental disorders. Most of the epilepsy patients without definite etiology have the same intelligence level as normal people. Epilepsy can also be divided into different types, and these different types will have different effects on intelligence. Primary generalized epilepsy such as absence epilepsy, primary partial epilepsy such as becct and benign occipital lobe epilepsy in children often have no significant effect on intelligence. However, lannox syndrome in secondary generalized epilepsy almost all have serious mental disorders.

Finally: another epilepsy syndrome called infantile spasm, which affects more than 90% of children's intelligence. If the patient's epilepsy attacks frequently, it will have a greater impact on intelligence. In addition to etiology and seizure type, the impact of seizure frequency on intelligence is also the main factor. The author has conducted a systematic study on the intelligence of patients with epilepsy, and found that the seizure frequency is positively correlated with mental retardation, that is, the higher the seizure frequency is, the lower the intelligence is. It should be pointed out that for a patient with epilepsy, the etiology and seizure type are often unchangeable, but it is feasible to reduce the seizure frequency or completely control the seizure through treatment to reduce its impact on intelligence.

matters needing attention

Pay more attention to patients with epilepsy and do a good job in psychological counseling. Maintain a stable mood and cultivate a lively, open-minded and optimistic character. We should know the factors that are easy to induce epileptic seizures, and do a good job in usual nursing measures to prevent increasing harm.