The intellectual decline caused by epilepsy may be recovered, and it needs to be judged in the context of the actual cause.
1. Psychological factors: the main group of people affected by epilepsy on intelligence is children, after the seizure of epilepsy, if the children have long-term anxiety, fear of psychology will lead to normal schooling, intelligence will also be reduced. In this case, after good psychological counseling, to overcome the fear of psychology, normal school intelligence will also be restored.
2. Drugs: patients with epilepsy need to use antiepileptic drugs to control their condition for a long time, but some antiepileptic drugs can cause intellectual decline, such as phenobarbital, phenytoin sodium, etc., and during the period of use of the drugs, most patients will not recover from the decline in intellectual ability, but after stopping the use of the drugs, intellectual ability will be restored to a certain extent, but epilepsy will have a relapse.
3. Tissue damage: prolonged seizures can cause irreversible damage to brain tissues. In most cases, mental decline caused by tissue damage will not return to normal, but it can be improved through exercise.
Epilepsy not only affects human intelligence, but also jeopardizes an individual’s normal life, so it is important to take preventive measures against epilepsy.