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Neuropsychology’s Contributions to a Pediatric Epilepsy Surgery Team

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Hospital-based neuropsychologists in comprehensive epilepsy centers work as an integral part of a large interdisciplinary team. In pediatric epilepsy surgery settings, in addition to their traditional role in assessing children’s cognitive skills, neuropsychologists help to provide some of the data upon which decisions to operate may be based. Several procedures that require patient cooperation may help to identify critical brain areas to avoid during neurosurgery (functional MRI, intracarotid amobarbital procedure or Wada test, and cortical stimulation mapping). Neuropsychologists are involved in teaching, coaching, and managing pediatric patients through these procedures, coordinating and collaborating with other team members. Their roles require nuanced understanding of the effects of perturbations on brain development, a firm grasp of the practice of pediatric psychology with children and their parents in a hospital setting, and ability to communicate with others who interact with these children in their everyday environments.

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  1. Department of Psychiatry, Seattle Children’s Hospital, Seattle, WA, USA

    Molly Warner & Hillary Shurtleff

  2. Department of Neurology, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA

    Molly Warner, Hillary Shurtleff, Russell Saneto, Edward Novotny & Jonathan Lopez

  3. Department of Neurology, Seattle Children’s Hospital, Department of Neurology, University of Washington School of Medicine, Seattle, WA, USA

    Catherine Amlie-Lefond

  4. Department of Neurology, Seattle Children’s Hospital, Seattle, WA, USA

    Russell Saneto, Edward Novotny, Jonathan Lopez & Sandra Poliachik

  5. Applied Physics Laboratory, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA

    Sandra Poliachik

  6. Department of Radiology, Seattle Children’s Hospital, Seattle, WA, USA

    Andrew Poliakov & Dennis Shaw

  7. Department of Radiology, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA

    Dennis Shaw

  8. Department of Neurological Surgery, Seattle Children’s Hospital, Seattle, WA, USA

    Jeffrey Ojemann

  9. Department of Neurological Surgery, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA

    Jeffrey Ojemann

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Warner, M. et al. (2019). Neuropsychology’s Contributions to a Pediatric Epilepsy Surgery Team. In: Sanders, K. (eds) Physician's Field Guide to Neuropsychology. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4939-8722-1_11

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