| Autor: |
Bjørnaes H; The National Centre for Epilepsy, Sandvika, Norway. helge.bjornes@epilepsy.no, Stabell KE, Røste GK, Bakke SJ |
| Jazyk: |
angličtina |
| Zdroj: |
Epilepsy & behavior : E&B [Epilepsy Behav] 2005 Feb; Vol. 6 (1), pp. 71-84. |
| DOI: |
10.1016/j.yebeh.2004.10.011 |
| Abstrakt: |
We studied the effects on verbal and nonverbal memory of anterior temporal lobe (ATL) surgery for epilepsy in 91 patients (46 men, 45 women), all of whom had left-hemisphere dominance for speech. Patients were divided into four groups according to sex and laterality of the excision. The memory tasks were administered shortly before surgery, 6 months postoperatively, and at a 2-year follow-up. Test scores were submitted to repeated-measures analyses of variance. We found that men treated with left temporal resection declined significantly in long-delay verbal memory after surgery, whereas no clear pre- to postoperative sex differences were found with respect to other verbal memory scores. Only the results on long-delay verbal memory confirm previous findings, showing a greater vulnerability of verbal memory to left ATL surgery in men than in women. Women with left temporal excisions obtained particularly poor scores on a long-delay nonverbal memory test preoperatively, but improved their performance on this test significantly after surgery. The seemingly gradual improvement during the 2-year follow-up suggests a plastic process. |
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MEDLINE |
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