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Arquivos de Neuro-Psiquiatria
Emotional declarative memory assessment of patients with mesial temporal lobe epilepsy and patients submitted to mesial temporal lobectomy
Lara De Vecchi Machado2  Jean Edith Frank1  Carlos Tomaz1 
[1] ,University of Brasília Faculty of Health Sciences Graduate Program in Health SciencesBrasília DF ,Brazil
关键词: emotional memory;    epilepsy;    temporal lobectomy;    memória emocional;    epilepsia;    lobectomia temporal;   
DOI  :  10.1590/S0004-282X2010000500012
来源: SciELO
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【 摘 要 】

Epileptic seizures generate cognitive and behavioral impacts in individuals who suffer from epilepsy. Declarative memory is one of the cognitive functions that can be affected by epileptic seizures. The main objective of this work was to investigate neurocognitive function, especially the emotional working memory of patients with unilateral mesial temporal lobe epilepsy, and that of patients submitted to unilateral mesial temporal lobectomy. A face recognition test that can simultaneously recruit the frontal lobe (working memory) and mesial temporal lobe (emotional memory) was used to investigate emotional working memory. Our findings showed that the epilepsy factor significantly compromised the performance in the emotional memory test. On the other hand, surgical removal of the epileptic focus promoted an improvement in the emotional working memory of these patients, in addition to the significantly decrease in the number of seizures.

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