Title: Quality of Life in Childhood Epilepsy with Lateralized Focus
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2. Main text, conclusions: Suggest changing first sentence to "In this study, left and right hemispheric foci were associated with discordant psychosocial functioning and QOL scores in children". Is is not correct to say that "Lateralization of epileptic focus can affect psychosocial functioning and lead to diminished QOL in children" as this assumes causation (which cannot be proven based on the current study).
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Quality of life in childhood epilepsy with lateralized epileptogenic foci
BACKGROUND Measuring quality of life (QOL) helps to delineate mechanisms underlying the interaction of disease and psychosocial factors. In adults, epileptic foci in the left temporal lobe led to lower QOL and higher depression and anxiety as compared to the right-sided foci. No study addressed the development of QOL disturbances depending on the lateralization of epileptogenic focus. The objec...
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تاریخ انتشار 2010