Sex differences in verbal and nonverbal learning before and after temporal lobe epilepsy surgery
| Autor: | Martin Holtkamp, Justus Berger, Frank Oltmanns, Thomas Bengner |
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| Rok vydání: | 2017 |
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Male medicine.medical_specialty Neuropsychological Tests Audiology Verbal learning behavioral disciplines and activities 050105 experimental psychology Temporal lobe Developmental psychology Young Adult 03 medical and health sciences Behavioral Neuroscience Epilepsy 0302 clinical medicine medicine Humans 0501 psychology and cognitive sciences Epilepsy surgery Nonverbal Communication Episodic memory Retrospective Studies Memory Disorders Sex Characteristics Hippocampal sclerosis 05 social sciences Middle Aged Verbal Learning medicine.disease Temporal Lobe nervous system diseases Epilepsy Temporal Lobe Neurology Female Neurology (clinical) Verbal memory Psychology psychological phenomena and processes 030217 neurology & neurosurgery Sex characteristics |
| Zdroj: | Epilepsy & Behavior. 66:57-63 |
| ISSN: | 1525-5050 |
| Popis: | Women outperform men in a host of episodic memory tasks, yet the neuroanatomical basis for this effect is unclear. It has been suggested that the anterior temporal lobe might be especially relevant for sex differences in memory. In the current study, we investigated whether temporal lobe epilepsy (TLE) has an influence on sex effects in learning and memory and whether women and men with TLE differ in their risk for memory deficits after epilepsy surgery. 177 patients (53 women and 41 men with left TLE, 42 women and 41 men with right TLE) were neuropsychologically tested before and one year after temporal lobe resection. We found that women with TLE had better verbal, but not figural, memory than men with TLE. The female advantage in verbal memory was not affected by temporal lobe resection. The same pattern of results was found in a more homogeneous subsample of 84 patients with only hippocampal sclerosis who were seizure-free after surgery. Our findings challenge the concept that the anterior temporal lobe plays a central role in the verbal memory advantage for women. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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