COMPARATIVE BEHAVIORAL STUDIES OF DIFFERENT TYPES OF EPILEPSY IN CHILDREN

According the result of our previous study, it was evidenced that behavioral problem might be a little more frequently occurrence in epileptic children compare to normal healthy children. In comparative study of different types of seizure, the behavioral problems was more frequently associated with temporal lobe epilpesy than other types, and the were aggressive, anxious, withdrawl and depressive in their character. Behavioral disorder was common in epileptic child with learning disorder compare to the ones without learning problems But it was difficult to say that epileptics with leraning problem did always associate with behavioral disorders. In comparative behavioral study between cryptogenic and symptomatic epileptic groups, there was no difference, because we were too strict to select the subject in our study. It was known that behavior of epileptics were influenced by many factors such as intelligence, cognitive function, onset the first seizure, type of seizure, anticonvulsant medication, as well as pre-existing intellectual defect and existence of previous neurologic disorder. To obtain exact results, larger number of patients should be analized by the multiple factors, should be followed in future.