Temporal lobe surgery in childhood and neuroanatomical predictors of long-term declarative memory outcome

See Berg (doi:10.1093/brain/awu320) for a scientific commentary on this article. In a long-term follow-up study of children who underwent temporal lobe surgery for treatment of epilepsy, Skirrow et al. identify no significant pre-to-post-surgery memory losses, but instead robust improvements in memory functions supported by the unoperated temporal lobe. The integrity of remaining temporal lobe structures places constraints on long-term memory outcomes.

• Publication year

  2014

• Venue

  Brain : a journal of neurology

• Publication date

  2014-11-12

• Fields of study

  Medicine, Psychology

• Identifiers
  DOI 10.1093/brain/awu313PMID 25392199PMCID 4285190
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  Semantic Scholar, PubMed

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