Does epilepsy impact cognition? Could it be seizures, medications – or something that happened right at the beginning – even before seizures started?! Hear all about it from epileptologist Dr. Jacob Pellinen who speaks of exciting answers – and questions – from the Human Epilepsy Project!
Chapters 📖
00:00 Trailer & intro
01:07 Meet Jacob Pellinen
01:17 Cognitive testing: The Human Epilepsy Project
05:01 Types of cognitive testing used
07:08 Results: cognition and epilepsy
08:34 What might be causing the cognitive problems?
09:44 Clinicians must take a holistic approach in care
11:36 Cognitive issues with other causes
12:27 Depression doesn’t cause epilepsy!
13:51 Cognitive challenges must be addressed with all other symptoms
15:14 Terrible experience – what a clinician should not do!
15:56 Appointments: topic could be depression or memory – not just seizures
16:37 Closing thoughts and thanks
🔗 Episode page and transcript
https://www.epilepsysparks.com/epilepsy-sparks-insights/cognition-memory-attention-perception-metacognition-language
🌐 More about Jacob https://epilepsysparks.com/guests/jacob-pellinen
🌐 More Epilepsy Sparks Insights https://epilepsysparks.com/epilepsy-sparks-insights
🎧 Listen on podcast https://share.transistor.fm/s/0a68eea0
🔤 Don’t understand terms used? Check out the Epilepsy Sparks Glossary! https://epilepsysparks.com/glossary
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