Attention Characterization in Patients with Frontal and Temporal Lobe Epilepsy

Epilepsy is a common neurological disorder. Neuropsychological and psychiatric disorders are frequently present in epileptic disease and responsible, among other things, for frequent negative psychosocial reflexes for both patients and families. Data from the literature have reported a definite relationship between type of epilepsy and type of neuropsychological disturbance in patients with epilepsy. Epilepsy is closely associated with impaired quality of life. People with epilepsy have a worse quality of life than the general population and many other chronic diseases. Despite this, no attention is paid to the quality of life of people with epilepsy except for symptom reduction. In adults, the specific functions of attention are poorly studied and underestimated. The objective of the present study is to investigate some peculiar functions of patients with frontal Lobe (FLE) or temporal lobe Epilepsy (TLE).