Epilepsy is a brain disorder characterized by recurring seizures. 🧠 It most commonly starts during childhood 🧒 or older adulthood 👨🦳. The most common form of epilepsy in youth is “temporal lobe epilepsy”, which impacts parts of the brain that help us understand social and emotional information. 🎭 To better understand the impact of early-onset epilepsy on youth’s social perception, we investigated emotion recognition skills in youth with and without epilepsy. Compared to youth without epilepsy, we found that youth with epilepsy struggled to identify emotional expressions in faces. This was related to different brain activation patterns in the temporal lobe. DSEC Lab Research Assistant Sophie Ye breaks down these findings and their implications for youth with epilepsy, as well as where future research can go with these results. 📝
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