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Published in final edited form as: Lancet. 2012 Sep 29;380(9848):10.1016/S0140-6736(12)61455-X. doi: 10.1016/S0140-6736(12)61455-X

TABLE 3.

Epilepsy Syndromes and Anticipated Cognitive and Psychiatric Complications

Epilepsy Syndrome	Core Pathophysiology	Core Cognitive Deficit	Core Psychiatric Deficit
Temporal lobe epilepsy	Hippocampus and mesial temporal lobe	Anterograde memory	Depression and Anxiety
Frontal lobe epilepsy	Frontal lobe	Executive functions	Personality Disorders
Benign epilepsy with centrotemporal lobe	Sylvian and rolandic regions	Language abilities	Unknown
Absence epilepsy	Thalamocortical network	Attention	Unknown
Juvenile myoclonic epilepsy	Frontothalamic network	Executive function	Personality Disorders