Epilepsy-related long-term amnesia: Anatomical perspectives

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There are few clues as to the neural basis of selective long-term amnesia. We report group and single-case data to shed light on this issue. In a group study of patients with transient epileptic amnesia, there were no significant correlations between volumetric measures of the hippocampus and indices of accelerated long-term forgetting or longer-term autobiographical memory loss. Post-mortem investigations in a patient with temporal lobe epilepsy who showed accelerated long-term forgetting, t...

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Authors: Butler, C; Kapur, N; Zeman, A; Weller, R; Connelly, A

• Journal: Neuropsychologia
• Volume: 50
• Issue: 13
• Pages: 2973-2980
• Publication date: 2012-11-01
• DOI: 10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2012.07.027
• EISSN: 1873-3514
• ISSN: 0028-3932
• Language: English
• Keywords: Hippocampus; Post-mortem; Imaging; Epilepsy; Transient epileptic amnesia; Consolidation