The Effect of Psychological Interventions on Improving the Working Memory of Children with Epilepsy

Working memory is a temporary system that retrieves information during a cognitive assignment such as perception, learning, argumentation of long-term memory. In the study of people with epilepsy, the focus of which is the hippocampus, memory retrieval has undergonesignificant changes. This can be attributed to the destruction of hippocampal synapses during epileptic seizures. The purpose of this paper is to investigate the effect of working memory rehabilitation on the improvement of synapses in children with epilepsy based on researchevidence. This case-control study was performed on 30 children with epilepsy with an average of 10 years. Subjects were examined using available sampling and diagnosis of neuropathologist. Working memory performance through error score using work memory(n-back test) and executive functions that included error components, phase response time Third, the Stroop test and the number of Wisconsin test card categories were determined. After two months and an average of 8 hours of work with a training test, which is a n-back exam test, cognitive rehabilitation and memory enhancement strategies as games and entertainment, subjects were re-tested with n-back tests. The results showed that there was a significant difference between the working memory of patients. Neurogenesis can be an effective factor in positive changes in working memory, which is closely related to rehabilitation in the process of treating the brain as a whole unit on its own position, the hippocampus. Brain application areas are likely to allow neurons to be retrieved and expanded during the rehabilitationprocess. Conclusion: Given the available evidence, rehabilitation in children with epilepsy can be considered as a route to improve memory processes, which structurally increases the chance of plasticity and the production of new synapses.