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Selective memory improvement and impairment in temporal lobectomy for epilepsy
Author(s) -
Novelly Robert A.,
Augustine Elizabeth A.,
Mattson Richard H.,
Glaser Gilbert H.,
Williamson Peter D.,
Spencer Dennis D.,
Spencer Susan S.
Publication year - 1984
Publication title -
annals of neurology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 4.764
H-Index - 296
eISSN - 1531-8249
pISSN - 0364-5134
DOI - 10.1002/ana.410150112
Subject(s) - temporal lobectomy , temporal lobe , anterior temporal lobectomy , epilepsy , memory impairment , psychosurgery , psychomotor learning , intractable epilepsy , complex partial seizures , medicine , partial seizures , psychology , audiology , neuroscience , cognition
Reexamination of 23 patients 1 year after elective anterior temporal lobectomy for intractable complex partial (psychomotor) seizures showed a reduction in certain memory functions combined with an improvement in others. Both improvement and impairment in selective memory functions were related to the degree of postoperative seizure reduction as well as to the side of the remaining temporal lobe. The results imply that uncontrolled seizures interfered with the memory functions of the temporal lobe contralateral to the epileptogenic focus.