Longer-term verbal and visual memory patterns in patients with temporal lobe and genetic generalized epilepsies.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

To compare forgetting patterns between patients with temporal lobe (TLE) and generalized (GGE) epilepsies and to assess whether recall is associated with epileptic activity.

Methods

Thirty-three patients with TLE (13 left, 17 right, and 3 nonlateralized TLE), 42 patients with GGE, and 57 healthy controls (HCs) were asked to recall words, verbal story material, and the Rey-Osterrieth complex figure at two delays. Accelerated long-term forgetting (ALF) was defined by group performance comparable to HCs at 30 min and worse recall than HCs after 4 weeks. ALF was assessed by comparing raw test scores in a two-way repeated measures analysis of variance (ANOVA) adjusted for the learning capacity.

Results

Compared to HCs, patients with R-TLE remembered fewer items o

SUBMITTER: Puteikis K 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10690666 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature