Psychological variations after taurine treatment (150 mg/kg/die i.v.) in ten partial seizures with complex symptomatology epileptics have been valued by means of Wechsler-Bellevue Intelligence Scale, Wechsler Memory Scale, Cattel's Retentivity Test, Raven's Progressive Matrices 1947, Mira Stambak's Test and Oseretzky's Test. The findings of the group of patients treated with taurine have been compared to results of another group of ten similar patients treated with placebo. At the base conditions, mean values of mental tests were similar in both groups. After treatments, improvement of mean scores has been observed in only the group treated with taurine, concerning intellectual performances in toto, and in detail intellectual vivacity and quickness, interest of surrounding environment, motivation, attention, memory and psychomotor capacities. These data indicate the employment of taurine in epileptics also to improve intellective functions.
Psychologic effects of taurine in epileptics having partial seizures with complex symptomatology
DICUONZO, Franca;
1977-01-01
Abstract
Psychological variations after taurine treatment (150 mg/kg/die i.v.) in ten partial seizures with complex symptomatology epileptics have been valued by means of Wechsler-Bellevue Intelligence Scale, Wechsler Memory Scale, Cattel's Retentivity Test, Raven's Progressive Matrices 1947, Mira Stambak's Test and Oseretzky's Test. The findings of the group of patients treated with taurine have been compared to results of another group of ten similar patients treated with placebo. At the base conditions, mean values of mental tests were similar in both groups. After treatments, improvement of mean scores has been observed in only the group treated with taurine, concerning intellectual performances in toto, and in detail intellectual vivacity and quickness, interest of surrounding environment, motivation, attention, memory and psychomotor capacities. These data indicate the employment of taurine in epileptics also to improve intellective functions.I documenti in IRIS sono protetti da copyright e tutti i diritti sono riservati, salvo diversa indicazione.
