Elizabeth H Ruder, Barbara Lohse, Diane C Mitchell, Leslie Cunningham-Sabo
Parent Food and Eating Behavior Assessments Predict Targeted Healthy Eating Index Components
Journal of nutrition education and behavior
rolandic epilepsy also called benign epilepsy centrotemporal spikes bects common childhood epilepsy syndrome associated cognitive difficulties affect childrens quality life underlying causes cognitive impairments unclear objective prospective study investigate subcortical morphological alterations children left right bilateral hemispheric focus association cognition participants include 41 children rolandic epilepsy 38 healthy controls age 814 years recruited chu saintejustine montreal children hospital n40 basels children hospital n39 quantitative volumetric assessment putamen caudate structures performed t1weighted mr scans along morphological analysis test differences patients controls analyses performed considering side epilepsy focus participants correlations investigated subcortical morphometry cognitive indices intelligence quotient iq verbal comprehension index vci perceptual reasoning index pri working memory index wmi processing speed index psi children bilateral bects showed statistically significant volume reduction right caudate p05 statistically significant putamen volumetric changes detected bects participants compared normal controls according spectralbased groupwise shape analysis regional alterations found putamen caudate structures children bects particular children left bects showed significant outward local deformity left putamen individuals bilateral bects showed inward local group differences right putamen right caudate correlation assessment showed positive association volume left caudate cognitive indices group containing bects participants negative correlation found putamen subregional shape alterations cognition individuals right bects bects participants negative associations caudate subregional morphologies cognitive indices detected left cohort confirmed putamen caudate shape alterations children bects however results suggest variations subcortical shape affect cognitive functions importantly demonstrated shape alterations relation cognition depend side epilepsy focus results point different syndromic entities bects population