CLINICAL AND NEUROPHYSIOLOGICAL PECULIARITIES OF MOTOR DISORDERS IN PATIENTS WITH POSTSTROKE EPILEPSY

The study included 22 patients with poststroke epilepsy (group 1) and 30 patients with stroke without epilepsy (group 2), A bilateral decrea se of the time of central conduction (TCC) through pyramidal path (bot h on the paretic and intact side) was revealed in group 1. This was no t observed in patients of group 2 with similar gravity of motor disord ers (p<0,01). Tendency to TCC decrease was also observed inpatients wi thout epileptic disorders by day 5-6 after ischemic stroke. However, T CC values were increased in such patients by day 10-14. Low indices pe rsisted for a long time in patients with poststroke. There was also an increase of delta index of facilitation (the difference between TCC i n rest and in muscle effort), It was also found that motor disorders i n the group of patients with poststroke epilepsy were characterised by higher muscular tone than in poststroke patients with the same degree of the paresis.