Rajasekaran AK, Shivashankar N, Sinha S, Saini J, Subbakrishna DK, Satishchandra P. Auditory Temporal Ordering in Patients with Medial Temporal Lobe Epilepsy with and without Hippocampal Sclerosis.
Neurol India 2021;
69:414-418. [PMID:
33904465 DOI:
10.4103/0028-3886.314569]
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Abstract
Context
Temporal lobe epilepsy can affect central auditory processing (CAP) skills. Auditory temporal ordering (ATO) is a CAP skill that can be evaluated using duration pattern test (DPT).
Aim
The aim is to evaluate ATO in patients with medial temporal lobe epilepsy (MTLE) with hippocampal sclerosis (MTLE + HS) and without hippocampal sclerosis (MTLE-HS) and in their subgroups.
Settings and Design
It was a prospective cross-sectional behavioral observational study conducted in a tertiary neuropsychiatric hospital.
Subjects and Methods
The subjects were patients with refractory MTLE (N = 100), comprising 50 "MTLE + HS" patients and 50 "MTLE-HS". Age-range matched normal healthy subjects (n = 50) formed the control group. Both groups were administered duration pattern test (DPT).
Statistical Analysis Used
Analysis of variance (ANOVA) with post hoc analysis, Dunnett's two-sided and Bonferroni, paired sample t-test, Pearson's correlation, and independent t-test.
Results
The clinical groups performed significantly poorer than the control group, and however, did not differ significantly between them. The age at onset and the duration of the seizures did not have significant relation with the test measures.
Conclusions
Patients with "MTLE + HS" as well as those with "MTLE-HS" and their respective subgroups revealed abnormal ATO indicating CAP dysfunction.
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