Cronicon OPEN ACCESS EC NEUROLOGY EC NEUROLOGY Research Article Memory Disturbances among Adult Sudanese Patients with Epileptic in Neurologic and Psychiatric Outpatient Clinics in Khartoum State Dina N Osman 1 , Mohamed A Alnor 1,2 *, Ahmed S Ahmed 2 , Mohamed Dafaalah 1 , Mohamed I Elfaki 1 , Mohamed A Taha 1 , Mohamed A Abdelrahim 1 , Musaab M Alfaki 1 and Abbasar Hussein 1 1 Faculty of Medicine, University of Khartoum, Khartoum, Sudan 2 Taha Baasher Psychiatric Teaching Hospital, Khartoum, Sudan Citation: Mohamed A Alnor., et al. “Memory Disturbances among Adult Sudanese Patients with Epileptic in Neurologic and Psychiatric Outpatient Clinics in Khartoum State”. EC Neurology 12.2 (2020): 01-09. *Corresponding Author: Mohamed A Alnor, Faculty of Medicine, University of Khartoum and Taha Baasher Psychiatric Teaching Hospital, Khartoum, Sudan. Received: December 20, 2019; Published: January 28, 2020 Abstract Keywords: Memory Disturbances; Epilepsy; Anxiety and Depression Objectives: This study aims to identify the factor(s) associated with memory disturbances among adult Sudanese epileptic patients. Methodology: A cross-sectional study was done in different neurologic and psychiatric outpatient clinics in Khartoum State. Out of 63 patients with epileptic, 47 patients completed the interview successfully. Patients in the post-ictal phase and with memory disturbances from different etiologies were excluded. Patients were interviewed by a psychiatry registrar and trained doctors using the memory component of the mental state examination to objectively assess memory disturbances. The subjective component of memory was assessed by a validated questionnaire (The Questionnaire of Memory Efficacy). Anxiety and depression were assessed by the validated Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale (HADS). Results: Short and long term memory disturbances were objectively detected in 68.1% and 31.9% of patients respectively. There was no significant association in the mean long term memory score among patients with idiopathic generalized epilepsy and temporal lobe epilepsy (P = 0.72). However, there was a significant difference in the mean short term memory score among patients with tem- poral lobe epilepsy compared to idiopathic generalized epilepsy (p = 0.02). There was no significant association between the mean memory score and the duration of epilepsy, use of Sodium Valproate, Carbamazepine and polytherapy (P = 0.34, 0.07, 0.43, 0.93) respectively. There was a correlation between memory disturbances and both anxiety and depression (R = 0.72, R 2 = 0.51, P = 0.00) and (R = 0.35, R 2 = 0.12, P = 0.025). Conclusion: Epilepsy causes significant memory disturbances that may be attributable to the disease itself, or associated anxiety and depression. Introduction The term “epilepsy” refers to a group of neurological disorders whose central feature is recurrent unprovoked seizures. Nevertheless, the effects of epilepsy may extend to impaired social functioning, learning difficulties, and memory deficits.