Blazhina I. Non-dementia cognitive disorders in epileptic cases: clinicalpsychopathological and neuropsychological profile, non-pharmacological correction.

The thesis discusses a topical issue of diagnostics, prevention and rehabilitation of non-dementia cognitive disorders in patients with epilepsy. Cognitive dysfunction affects the development, treatment compliance, significantly worsens the quality of life and social functioning of the patients with epilepsy. Considering the abovementioned and the contemporary limits of pharmacological correction of cognitive disorders, it is necessary to develop new effective therapeutic and preventive strategies. The aim of the research is to study the features of non-dementia cognitive disorders in patients with epilepsy to improve the effectiveness of their diagnostics, prevention and non-pharmacological correction. This study was the first to use the systemic approach to the research into the clinical, individual-psychological, patho-psychological characteristics and 20 the life quality of the patients with epilepsy, which focused on and systematized nondementia cognitive disorders, their relations with patients’ clinical psychopathological and their psychosocial characteristics. The results of the thesis research may be applied in the professional activities of psychiatrists, neurologists, general practitioners, family doctors and medical psychologists.