Jason, you make a good point. A child's brain is much more "plastic"
than an adult's brain. So brain trauma or surgery will affect a
child's abilities less, because other parts of the brain will take
over other functions more easily. That doesn't mean that adult brains
are incapable of taking over other functions, though. It may not be
as seamless or complete, though, and if loss is severe (such as
complete loss of speech, for example) recovery may not be possible.
I agree that early surgery would be better in terms of this brain
plasticity, but it seems like most of the people who have had brain
surgery on this list did so as adults. Is this because the seizure
disorder's onset was in adulthood, that much of peoples' childhoods
were spent trying to find drug regimens that would control seizures,
or ???
Tammy
Megan's Mom
PS I noticed that Uggie said her daughter was losing fine motor
skills, memory and something else, and that her daughter has temporal
lobe epilepsy. Several other people with this problem also had
temporal lobe epilepsy. Is this type of seizure more likely to result
in measurable or noticeable brain tissue damage than generalized
seizures?
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