Clinical cognitive behavioral manifestations in epileptic patients

World Congress on Epilepsy and Brain Disorders

November 22-23, 2018 Cape Town, South Africa

Guillermo Nicolas Jemar

TREMA Mental Health and Neurosciences, Argentina

Scientific Tracks Abstracts: Epilepsy J

Abstract :

During recent years, the Neurosciences have provided valuable studies and empirical information about atypical clinical presentations in epileptic patients, who most often attend interconsultation with Neuropsychiatry. Among these Manifestations, impulsiveness and disruptive behaviors are those that generate clinical disquisitions between epilepsy and the basic structuring of the subject's personality. Alterations in higher brain functions, especially mnesic failures, but also depletion in attention and cognitive decline in general are manifestations that limit social cognition and patients' relationship life. It is also known that sensoperceptive alterations appear when there are psychotic symptoms, among which the delusional ideation of a mystical type is more frequent. The cognitive decline is marked by the course of thought, and evolutionarily the content of it. Patients are losing agility, their language becomes sticky, reduced and persevering, losing the fluidity that leads to free and easy association. In the present paper we propose to analyze the sign symptomatology of the epileptic patient that presents alterations in the structuring of the personality, failure in the control of the impulses and in the behavior and cognitive decline characterized by progressive loss of the superior cerebral functions and sensoperceptive alterations.

Biography :

Guillermo Nicolás Jemar is a Doctor (National University of Córdoba Specialist in Psychiatry, Hospital José T. Borda and Maimónides University) and is a Specialist in Neuropsychiatry and Cognitive Neurology (University of Buenos Aires). He has done his Masters in Neuroscience (Maimónides University). He also has received International fellowship from the American Psychiatric Association (APA). And also an International Member of the European Psychiatric Association (EPA). He is the Director of the Senior Annual Course in Cognitive Neuroscience applied to Personality Disorders and psychopathies of the Argentine Society of Personality Disorders and Psychopathies, from the year 2016 to the present. Director of TREMA Mental Health and Neurosciences. He is the Founding Partner of the Ibero- Latin American Society of Neuroscience and Psychiatry (AINLANCYP) and Member of the Psychoneuroimmunoendocrinology and Dual Pathology Chapters of the World Psychiatric Association (WPA). He is one of the founders and Treasurer of the Argentine Society of Disorders of Personality and Psychopathies (SATP). Vice-president of the Psychiatry Chapter of the Penitentiary Services of the Association of Argentine Psychiatrists (APSA).

E-mail: guillermojemar@hotmail.com