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Epilepsy
New epilepsy study findings have been published by P. Figueiredo and colleagues
September 1st, 2008
According to a study from Lisbon, Portugal, "We investigated functional reorganization mechanisms of the human medial temporal lobe (MTL) for episodic memory, in patients suffering from medial temporal lobe epilepsy (MTLE) with hippocampal sclerosis (HS). We used functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) to measure brain activity changes during matched episodic encoding tasks of abstract words (Verbal) and line drawings (Visual), in patients with unilateral right MTLE undergoing presurgical evaluation and healthy controls." "As expected, a significant interaction between material type and the side of MTL activity was present in the control group, with preferential...
Source: Pain & Central Nervous System Week (2008-09-01)
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