How Encephalopathy Impacts Language Ability: A Scoping Review of the Linguistic Abilities of Adults with Developmental and Epileptic Encephalopathy.

ABSTRACT: Background and Objectives: Developmental and epileptic encephalopathy refers to a group of conditions where patients experience abnormal development due to various causes as well as frequent epileptiform discharges that ultimately contribute, in an independent and additive fashion, to cognitive and linguistic impairments. The language and cognition outcome of these patients in adulthood has been understudied. This paper aims to present a scoping review of linguistic abilities in adults with developmental and epileptic encephalopathy to determine the extent to which language outcomes in adulthood and their relation to cognitive outcomes have been studied. Design: Two online databases were searched and the methodological framework by Arksey & O'Malley (2005) was adopted. Res

SUBMITTER: Papatheodorou I 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11509453 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature