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  • About
  • The Global ETD Search service is a free service for researchers to find electronic theses and dissertations. This service is provided by the Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations.
    Our metadata is collected from universities around the world. If you manage a university/consortium/country archive and want to be added, details can be found on the NDLTD website.
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The cognitive and affective correlates of the memory complaint in temporal lobe epilepsy

O'Shea, Marie F. January 1996 (has links)
An impression which has dominated both the clinical setting and research literature is that patients with temporal lobe epilepsy (TLE) not infrequently issue "bitter" complaints about their memory function. This observation has rarely been subjected to investigation, based as it is, on the implicit assumption that TLE subjects are "entitled" to a memory disturbance given the involvement of a critical memory structure (i.e, hippocampus) in the pathogenesis of the disorder. While it is almost axiomatic that clinicians become aware of memory difficulties because of the subjective complaints issued by patients, there is growing awareness that the relationship between complaint and objective memory disturbance is a complex and often counterintuitive one. This is particularly true of many patients with TLE who while complaining about their memory function often do so in the presence of objectively normal interictal memory function. / This thesis addressed the question: Why do patients with TLE complain about their memory? It was premised on the notion that memory self-report is not a unidimensional construct explicable in terms of an underlying memory dysfunction alone, but the perception and expression of memory may arise from seemingly disparate sources. The principal objective of the thesis was to systematically and comprehensively investigate the complaint in TLE, and to derive an understanding of the variables which contribute to the perception and expression of poor memory in members of this population. The variables selected for investigation emerged from a detailed review of the literature and can be grouped into five broad conceptual domains: demographic, epileptological, psychological, cognitive, and metacognitive. (For complete abstract open document)
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Neural plasticity following anterior temporal lobectomy /

Mechanic-Hamilton, Dawn J. Williams, J. Michael. January 2010 (has links)
Thesis (Ph.D.)--Drexel University, 2010. / Includes abstract and vita. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 95-104).
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Desempenho de memória em paciente com epilepsia do lobo temporal: contribuições das subpartes da formação hipocampal

MELO, Michel Gomes de 04 March 2016 (has links)
Submitted by Rafael Santana (rafael.silvasantana@ufpe.br) on 2017-07-25T18:11:48Z No. of bitstreams: 2 license_rdf: 811 bytes, checksum: e39d27027a6cc9cb039ad269a5db8e34 (MD5) ufpe_mestrado_disseracao_Michel_Melo_2016.pdf: 869604 bytes, checksum: 4942c04024c59c9a4a1be9407c5ff92c (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2017-07-25T18:11:48Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 2 license_rdf: 811 bytes, checksum: e39d27027a6cc9cb039ad269a5db8e34 (MD5) ufpe_mestrado_disseracao_Michel_Melo_2016.pdf: 869604 bytes, checksum: 4942c04024c59c9a4a1be9407c5ff92c (MD5) Previous issue date: 2016-03-04 / A Epilepsia do Lobo Temporal (ELT) é a forma mais refratária ao tratamento farmacológico. Esse tipo de epilepsia tem origem nas estruturas do lobo temporal, sendo o hipocampo uma das estruturas mais afetadas, apresentando diminuição do volume e, consequentemente, gliose, caracterizando a Esclerose Hipocampal (EH). É sabido que o hipocampo desenvolve importante papel no processo mnemônico, sendo o déficit de memória a alteração mais importante nesses pacientes. Neste contexto, o presente trabalho tem como objetivo investigar a relação do desempenho de memória nos pacientes com ELT com as subpartes da formação hipocampal. Trata-se de um estudo retrospectivo, transversal, analítico, utilizando imagens de ressonância magnética (IRM) e escores de testes neuropsicológicos de memória verbal e visual, obtidos a partir de um grupo de 60 pacientes atendidos no Hospital das Clínicas da Faculdade de Medicina de Ribeirão Preto, da Universidade de São Paulo, no período de 2008 a 2011. Para a obtenção dos volumes das subpartes da formação hipocampal das IRM, foi utilizado a segmentada automática pelo software FreeSurfer®, obtendo os volumes da cauda do hipocampo, pré-subículo, CA1, CA2/3, CA4/GD, subículo, fímbria e fissura hipocampal. Posteriormente, foram correlacionadas com variáveis clínicas e escores de memória. A análise das imagens revelou atrofia generalizada nas subpartes da formação hipocampal ipsilateral (EH), exceto da fissura hipocampal. Essa redução do volume interferiu diretamente no desempenho de memória verbal e visual, desses pacientes. Os pacientes com EH à direita apresentaram déficit significativos na memória visual. Já os pacientes com EH à esquerda, apresentaram déficit na memória verbal e na memória visual. Foi possível avaliar, também, que a atrofia na região CA1 está relacionada com a diminuição do desempenho de memória declarativa e que os danos no CA2/3 e CA4/GD estão envolvidos com baixo desempenho das memórias de longo prazo. Neste contexto, é possível concluir que o desempenho de memória depende de uma rede de integração integra e não só de regiões especializadas. Concluímos, também, que tanto a memória verbal, quando a memória visual, possui um hemisfério dominante, no entanto, o hemisfério não dominante, quando lesionado, também interfere do desempenho de memória. / The Temporal Lobe Epilepsy (TLE) is the most resistant form of epilepsy to pharmacology treatment. This epilepsy type has its origin on the temporal lobe, which the hippocampus is one of the most affected structures, presenting volume decreasing and gliosis, characterizing the Hippocampal Sclerosis (HE). It is known that the hippocampus has an important role in the mnemônnico process and the memory deficit is the most important change in these patients. So, this work aims to investigate the relationship between the memory development in the TLE patients and the hippocampal formation subparts. It is a retrospective study, transversal, analytic, using Magnetic Resonance Images (MRI) and verbal and visual memory neuropsychological tests scores obtained from a group of 60 (sixty) patients from the Hospital das Clínicas of the Ribeirão Preto Medical School, University de São Paulo between 2008 and 2011. To measure the hippocampal formation subparts volume of IRM, it was used the automatic segmented by the FreeSurfer® software, getting the volume of the hipocampo tail, presubículum, CA1, CA2/3, CA4/DG, subiculum, fímbria and hippocampal fissure, that had been correlated with clinical variables and memory scores. The image analysis revealed a general atrophy in the hippocampal formation subparts, except the hippocampal fissure. This volume reduction had directly interfered in the declarative memory performance, verbal and visual, of these patients. The Right HE patients, presented significant visual memory deficit. The Left EH patients presented both verbal and visual memory deficit. It was also possible to evaluate that CA1 region atrophy is related to the declarative memory performance decrease and the damage in the CA2/3 and CA4/DG are related to the low performance of the long term memories. In this way, we conclude that memory performance depends on a whole integration network and not only an specific region. We also conclude that both verbal and visual memory has a dominant hemisphere, eventhough damages to the non dominant hemisphere will also interfere in te memory performance.
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Cirurgia de epilepsia em pacientes com epilepsia do lobo temporal associada a esclerose hipocampal: uma comparação do prognóstico cognitivo com e sem ressecção do polo temporal / Epilepsy surgery in temporal lobe epilepsy associated with left hippocampal sclerosis: a comparison of cognitive outcome with or without temporal pole resection

Silva, Ana Carolina Gargaro 10 April 2019 (has links)
Sabe-se que a epilepsia do lobo temporal associada à esclerose hipocampal (ELT-EH) é uma síndrome epiléptica frequente e de difícil controle medicamentoso. Além disso, esta condição acarreta em uma série de prejuízos cognitivos aos seus portadores antes e após a cirurgia para tratamento das crisesrefratárias. Alguns trabalhos mostram que o prognóstico cognitivo pode mudar dependendo da abordagem cirúrgica realizada. Dessa forma, este trabalho teve como objetivo verificar qual o papel do polo temporal no funcionamento cognitivo. Para isso, foi realizada uma análise retrospectiva dos prontuários médicos de 146 pacientes adultos com ELT-EH esquerda, destros, avaliados no Centro de Cirurgia de Epilepsia (CIREP) do Hospital das Clínicas da Faculdade de Medicina de Ribeirão Preto (HCFMRP) - Universidade de São Paulo (USP). Os resultados mostraram um melhor desempenho na tarefa de nomeação por confronto visual nos pacientes que passaram por lobectomia temporal esquerda sem ressecção do polo (p=0.007). Quando realizada da análise do índicede mudança confiável (RCI) para verificar a relevância clínica dos achados, 39,4% dos pacientes que passaram pela cirurgia com ressecção do polo temporal mostraram uma piora significativa de desempenho no teste de nomeação por confronto visual no Boston Naming Test (BNT), enquanto apenas 16% dos que passaram pela cirurgia sem ressecção do polo mostraram piora significativa no mesmo teste (p=0.015). No entanto, este mesmo grupo mostrou um pior prognóstico de controle de crises quando comparado ao grupo com ressecção do polo (p=0.018). Assim, esses dadosindicam que o polo temporal pode estar envolvido em habilidades de nomeação. Nossos resultados sugerem, portanto, que a cirurgia para o tratamento das crises refratárias nos pacientes com ELT-EH esquerda poderiam considerar as diferenças individuais para decidir a melhor abordagem cirúrgica para cada paciente / It is known that the temporal lobe epilepsy (TLE) associated with hippocampal sclerosis (HS) is a frequent epileptic syndrome with difficult medication control. In addition, this condition leads to a series of cognitive impairments to patients before and after surgery for the treatment of refractory crises. Studies shown that cognitive prognosis may change depending on the surgical approach. Thus, this study aimed to verify the role of temporal pole in cognitive functions. A retrospective analysis of medical records from 146 adult patients with left-sided TLE-HS - evaluated at the Center for Epilepsy Surgery (CIREP) of the Clinical Hospital from Ribeirão Preto Medical School was performed. The results showed a higherperformance on visual confrontation namingtests - according to the Boston Naming Test (BNT) - in patients submitted to left temporal lobectomy without pole resection (p=0.007). Reliable change index (RCI)analysis, for clinical relevance,revealed that 39.4% of the patients submitted to temporal pole resectionshowed significantly worse performance on visual confrontation naming and only 16% of the patients without pole resection were significantly worse in the same test (p=0.015). However, this same group showed a worse prognosis of crisis control when compared to the group with pole resection (p=0.018). Altogether, the present study suggest that the temporal pole may be involved in naming skills. Our results suggest that surgery for left TLE-HS should be performed considering individual differences to decide the best surgical approach for each patient

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