Enhancing the cognitive, psychological, and social outcomes of adults undergoing surgery for focal drug-resistant epilepsy: protocol for a scoping review
Evelyn E Harvey, Honor Coleman, Deepa Bapat, Gloria Brigiari, Francesco Brigo, Sarah Brown, Sean M D Carnegie, Dario Englot, Michael W K Fong, Heather M Francis, Isabella Hogan, Nathalie Jetté, Andres Kanner, Aileen McGonigal, Bryce P Mulligan, Didier Vincent Oxenham, Piero Perucca, Sarah J Wilson · 2026
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Evelyn Harvey and a large team lay out a protocol for a scoping review of what enhances cognitive, psychological, and social outcomes for adults undergoing surgery for focal drug-resistant epilepsy. The surgery aims first at seizure control, which can remain the lead goal while wider gains go unseen. Few tested interventions for thinking, mood, or social functioning after surgery have been mapped in one place. Their 2026 protocol describes the first scoping review of its kind for this field.
Searches will span three large health databases, with no bar on date, language, or country. Interventions given before or after the surgery count, in adults with drug-resistant focal epilepsy. Two reviewers will chart each finding, presented in tables, charts, and a narrative summary. No ethics approval is needed for a review of published work. The map aims to seed shared guidance from the international epilepsy league.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Evelyn E Harvey, Honor Coleman, Deepa Bapat, Gloria Brigiari, Francesco Brigo, Sarah Brown, Sean M D Carnegie, Dario Englot, Michael W K Fong, Heather M Francis, Isabella Hogan, Nathalie Jetté, Andres Kanner, Aileen McGonigal, Bryce P Mulligan, Didier Vincent Oxenham, Piero Perucca, Sarah J Wilson |
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| YEAR | 2026 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 32 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |