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  • Title: One-year postoperative autobiographical memory following unilateral temporal lobectomy for control of intractable epilepsy.
    Author: Voltzenlogel V, Despres O, Vignal JP, Kehrli P, Manning L.
    Journal: Epilepsia; 2007 Mar; 48(3):605-8. PubMed ID: 17326789.
    Abstract:
    PURPOSE: To examine the effects of temporal lobectomy (TL), particularly concerning its lateralization. METHODS: Patients completed autobiographical memory tests, preoperatively and 1-year postoperatively. RESULTS: (a) right TL (RTL) patients recalled significantly more memories from the year after surgery than from the year before TL; (b) their pre to postoperative improvement on autobiographical memory scores was positively correlated to improvement of delayed story recall scores; and (c) 1 year after surgery, performance on recent personal memory recall was normalized for RTL patients only. CONCLUSION: We suggest that, in the absence of recurrent seizures, the relative integrity of the left hemisphere together with residual right hemisphere structures sustains postoperative autobiographical memory consolidation, at least 1 year postoperatively.
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