The nature and course of neuropsychological morbidity in chronic temporal lobe epilepsy

To characterize the nature and degree of cognitive morbidity in patients with chronic temporal lobe epilepsy compared with healthy control subjects, determine the association between the duration of epilepsy and cognitive morbidity, and ascertain whether there are factors that moderate the association between duration of disorder and cognitive impairment.Temporal lobe epilepsy (n = 96) and healthy control (n = 82) subjects were assessed with a...