My daughter is a college student. She takes Lamictal for partial seizures that don't occur often and only last seconds. (Focus on the right side) In her classes, she completes all assignments and usually makes an A or B on them. On the tests, which usually cover multiple chapters, she cannot make over a 50 or 60 in "easy" classes and 30s and 40s in the tough ones. I helped her study for a chapter, quizzed her on it, had her take a multiple choice practice test online, and she did great. This was several weeks before the test, but she again made a 60 on it. It seems like things work well in her short term memory, but it doesn't stay in long term. (or never goes there.) She scored low on a test of verbal memory, and I am having her memorize poetry all summer, and she struggles with it. I am doing this because there is one study that showed that rote learning helped memory. Has anyone else experienced this problem with verbal memory?

I also had a question about Lamictal; I don't notice side effects, but I have noticed that my daughter doesn't have much of an interest in anything. She hangs out in her room daydreaming or listening to music when she isn't at her summer job. When I take her shopping with me, she follows me around and shows no interest in things I think she would, like clothes, makeup, boys, music,etc. She is very even keel but seems to lack motivation. This is in contrast to the way she was in junior high and younger, when she was on Tegretol. The neurologist tells me that Lamictal makes people "happy" and they usually like it because it works in a different way than most anti seizure drugs. Anyone else unmotivated on Lamictal?