Importance Epilepsy surgery is indicated for patients with focal seizures who do not respond
to appropriate antiepileptic drug therapy consisting of 2 or more medications. Objectives To …

Purpose: Epilepsy surgery is a safe surgical procedure, but it may be associated with
cognitive changes. Estimates of the risk of decline in specific neuropsychological domains …

According to the Procedural Deficit Hypothesis (PDH), abnormalities of brain structures
underlying procedural memory largely explain the language deficits in children with specific …

Removal of the anterior temporal lobe (ATL) is an effective surgical treatment for intractable
temporal lobe epilepsy but carries a risk of language and verbal memory deficits …

It is well established that the medial-temporal lobe (MTL) is critical for recognition memory.
The MTL is known to be composed of distinct structures that are organized in a hierarchical …

The idea that verbal and non-verbal forms of memory are segregated in their entirety, and
localized to the left and right hippocampi, is arguably the most influential concept in the …

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

To what degree does the so-called 'initial hit'of the brain versus chronic epilepsy contribute
towards the memory impairment observed in chronic temporal lobe epilepsy (TLE) patients …

The hippocampus has long been proposed to play a critical role in novelty detection through
its ability to act as a comparator between past and present experience. A recent study …

Considerable evidence from different methodologies has identified the anterior temporal
lobes (ATLs) as key regions for the representation of semantic knowledge. Research interest …