Limbic event-related potentials related to verbal but not to visual recognition memory have been found to be attenuated within the epileptic hippocampus of patients with temporal lobe epilepsy (TLE). To identify hippocampal contributions to visual processing and memory we recorded intracranial ERPs directly from within the epileptic and the non-epileptic hippocampus in12 patientswith unilateral TLE during a visual object decision and naming task. While the non-epileptic hippocampus di¡erentiated reliably between real and nonsense objects, this effect was completely eliminated within the epileptic mesial temporal lobe. This finding suggests that the hippocampus proper contributes to the semantic processing of visual objects and may help to explain visual memory deficits in TLE.

Hippocampal function and visual object processing in temporal lobe epilepsy / M. VANNUCCI; DIETL T.; PEZER N.; M.P. VIGGIANO; HELMSTAEDTER C.; SCHALLER C.; ELGER C.E.; GRUNWALD T.. - In: NEUROREPORT. - ISSN 0959-4965. - STAMPA. - 14:(2003), pp. 1489-1492. [10.1097/00001756-200308060-00017]

Hippocampal function and visual object processing in temporal lobe epilepsy

VANNUCCI, MANILA;VIGGIANO, MARIA PIA;
2003

Abstract

Limbic event-related potentials related to verbal but not to visual recognition memory have been found to be attenuated within the epileptic hippocampus of patients with temporal lobe epilepsy (TLE). To identify hippocampal contributions to visual processing and memory we recorded intracranial ERPs directly from within the epileptic and the non-epileptic hippocampus in12 patientswith unilateral TLE during a visual object decision and naming task. While the non-epileptic hippocampus di¡erentiated reliably between real and nonsense objects, this effect was completely eliminated within the epileptic mesial temporal lobe. This finding suggests that the hippocampus proper contributes to the semantic processing of visual objects and may help to explain visual memory deficits in TLE.
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M. VANNUCCI; DIETL T.; PEZER N.; M.P. VIGGIANO; HELMSTAEDTER C.; SCHALLER C.; ELGER C.E.; GRUNWALD T.
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