Revista de neurologia
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Revista de neurologia · Dec 2002
Review[Clinical neuropsychology of the surgery of temporal lobe epilepsy].
The surgery of epilepsy has become a real alternative for the treatment of patients with drug resistant epilepsy. In this study we review the part played by Clinical Neuropsychology in programmes of surgery for epilepsy, particularly in operations designed to treat drug resistant temporal lobe epilepsy. ⋯ Review of the literature shows how important it is for the clinical neuropsychologist to be involved in programmes of the surgery of epilepsy, studying the patients before and after surgery and assessing prognosis. Clinical neuropsychology is also important for predicting the post surgical neuropsychological results.
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Revista de neurologia · Dec 2002
Review[Advances in physiopathology and the treatment of neuropathic pain].
In this paper we review the most significant studies on the treatment of neuropathic pain over the last few decades, as well as the most recent research work in which the physiopathological mechanisms of pain, with the intention of looking for evidence based criteria that can help us to choose the most appropriate treatment. ⋯ Different neurophysical alterations induce the most diverse clinical manifestations, such as paresthesia, hyperalgesia or allodynia, regardless of the etiological processes that condition them. The efficiency of tricyclic antidepressants and of carbamazepine is made clear in different clinical studies, but the new antiepileptics (with the exception of gabapentin) have frequently been used in open clinical studies, which means there is a need for double blind controlled clinical trials in order to determine the efficiency and the tolerability of the different therapeutic alternatives in each of the clinical manifestations of neuropathic pain.