Cognitive impairment, particularly memory disruption, is a major complicating feature of
epilepsy. This Review will begin with a focus on the problem of memory impairment in …

Medically refractory focal epilepsy is potentially curable by surgery. This Review considers
the application of recent advances in structural and functional brain imaging to increase the …

Functional magnetic resonance imaging can demonstrate the functional anatomy of
cognitive processes. In patients with refractory temporal lobe epilepsy, evaluation of …

Purpose: Verbal memory decline is a frequent complication of left anterior temporal
lobectomy (L‐ATL). The goal of this study was to determine whether preoperative language …

Partial removal of the anterior temporal lobe (ATL) is a highly effective surgical treatment for
intractable temporal lobe epilepsy, yet roughly half of patients who undergo left ATL …

Selective anterior mesial temporal lobe (AMTL) resection is considered a safe and effective
treatment for medically refractory mesial temporal lobe epilepsy (MTLE). However, as with …

Objective: To develop a clinically applicable memory functional MRI (fMRI) method of
predicting postsurgical memory outcome in individual patients. Methods: In this prospective …

Anterior temporal lobe resection controls seizures in 50–60% of patients with intractable
temporal lobe epilepsy but may impair memory function, typically verbal memory following …

Purpose: Language lateralization measured by preoperative functional magnetic resonance
imaging (fMRI) was shown recently to be predictive of verbal memory outcome in patients …

Purpose: Anterior temporal lobe resection (ATR) is a treatment option in drug‐resistant
epilepsy. An important risk of ATR is loss of memory because mesiotemporal structures …