Article Dans Une Revue Epilepsy & Behavior Reports Année : 2024

An Exploration of Anomia Rehabilitation in Drug-Resistant Temporal Lobe Epilepsy

Véronique Sabadell
Agnès Trébuchon
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Around 40% of patients who undergo a left temporal lobe epilepsy (LTLE) surgery suffer from anomia (word-finding difficulties), a condition that negatively impacts quality of life. Despite these observations, language rehabilitation is still understudied in LTLE. We assessed the effect of a four-week rehabilitation on four drug-resistant LTLE patients after their surgery. The anomia rehabilitation was based on cognitive descriptions of word finding deficits in LTLE. Its primary ingredients were psycholinguistic tasks and a psychoeducation approach to help patients cope with daily communication issues. We repeatedly assessed naming skills for trained and untrained words, before and during the therapy using an A-B design with follow-up and replication. Subjective anomia complaint and standardized language assessments were also collected. We demonstrated the effectiveness of the rehabilitation program for trained words despite the persistence of seizures. Furthermore, encouraging results were observed for untrained items. Variable changes in anomia complaint were observed. One patient who conducted the protocol as self-rehabilitation responded similarly to the others, despite the different manner of intervention. These results open promising avenues for helping epileptic patients suffering from anomia. For example, this post-operative program could easily be adapted to be conducted preoperatively.

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hal-04723198 , version 1 (07-10-2024)

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Véronique Sabadell, Agnès Trébuchon, F.-Xavier Alario. An Exploration of Anomia Rehabilitation in Drug-Resistant Temporal Lobe Epilepsy. Epilepsy & Behavior Reports, 2024, 27, pp.100681. ⟨10.1016/j.ebr.2024.100681⟩. ⟨hal-04723198⟩
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