Reconsidering the clinical utility of the Test of Premorbid Functioning (TOPF) as a measure of premorbid cognitive capability in patients with temporal lobe epilepsy.
Estimating premorbid cognitive capability provides a baseline to accurately identify and quantify cognitive impairments incurred following neurological illness or injury, including in epilepsy. Irregular word reading tests like the Test of Premorbid Functioning (TOPF) are routinely used for this purpose, underpinned by...