- Title Pages
- Preface
- Contributors
- Abbreviations
- Chapter 1 Introduction
- Part 1 History
- Chapter 2 Memory before and after H.M.: an impressionistic historical perspective
- Chapter 3 Memory disorders and epilepsy during the nineteenth century
- Part 2 Overviews of memory and epilepsy
- Chapter 4 Interictal memory disturbance: a comparative phenomenology and epidemiology of memory impairment in epilepsies
- Chapter 5 Long-term follow-up of memory in patients with epilepsy
- Chapter 6 Memory in children with epilepsy
- Part 3 Ictal and interictal memory phenomena
- Chapter 7 <i>Déjà</i> experiences in epilepsy: contributions from memory research
- Chapter 8 The syndrome of transient epileptic amnesia
- Chapter 9 Effects of epileptiform EEG discharges on cognitive function
- Part 4 Assessment
- Chapter 10 Neuropsychological assessment of memory in patients with epilepsy
- Chapter 11 Memory assessment in intracarotid anaesthetic procedures: history and current status
- Chapter 12 Epilepsy and the study of spatial memory using virtual reality
- Part 5 Remote memory and psychiatric disorders
- Chapter 13 Remote memory and temporal lobe epilepsy
- Chapter 14 Electroconvulsive therapy for depression and autobiographical memory
- Chapter 15 Psychiatric aspects of memory disorders in epilepsy
- Part 6 Imaging and event-related potentials (ERPs)
- Chapter 16 Structural imaging and neuropathological correlates of memory in epilepsy
- Chapter 17 Functional imaging of memory in epilepsy
- Chapter 18 Electrophysiological studies of memory in epilepsy
- Part 7 Intracranial stimulation and recording
- Chapter 19 Memory and epilepsy in nonhuman animals
- Chapter 20 Hippocampal electrical stimulation and localisation of long-term episodic memory
- Chapter 21 Interrelationships between epilepsy, sleep, and memory
- Chapter 22 Mapping memories in the medial temporal lobe: contributions from single-neuron recordings in patients with epilepsy
- Part 8 Management and outcome
- Chapter 23 Anticonvulsants and memory
- Chapter 24 Effects of amygdalohippocampectomy versus corticoamygdalohippocampectomy on memory and nonmemory cognitive functions
- Chapter 25 Memory rehabilitation for people with epilepsy
- Author index
- Subject index
Epilepsy and the study of spatial memory using virtual reality
Epilepsy and the study of spatial memory using virtual reality
- Chapter:
- (p.209) Chapter 12 Epilepsy and the study of spatial memory using virtual reality
- Source:
- Epilepsy and Memory
- Author(s):
Véronique D. Bohbot
Louisa Dahmani
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
This chapter describes the use of virtual reality (VR) in the assessment of spatial memory in patients with epilepsy. VR has been an extremely useful resource for the study of the role of the medial temporal lobes (MTL) in spatial memory and cognitive mapping in patients with epilepsy. While several studies show that the right and left MTLs are specialized in the learning and memory of spatial and verbal information, respectively, recent VR studies in patients with unilateral MTL resections show that, in fact, both the right and left medial temporal lobes are essential. A recent fMRI study conducted with epilepsy patients showed that patients with right-sided MTL lesions have significant activity in the left hippocampus during a virtual navigation task, whereas patients with left-sided lesions have significant activity in the right hippocampus. Studies like these suggest that both the right and left hippocampus contribute to spatial memory and navigation.
Keywords: spatial memory, medial temporal lobes, cognitive mapping, hippocampus, navigation
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- Title Pages
- Preface
- Contributors
- Abbreviations
- Chapter 1 Introduction
- Part 1 History
- Chapter 2 Memory before and after H.M.: an impressionistic historical perspective
- Chapter 3 Memory disorders and epilepsy during the nineteenth century
- Part 2 Overviews of memory and epilepsy
- Chapter 4 Interictal memory disturbance: a comparative phenomenology and epidemiology of memory impairment in epilepsies
- Chapter 5 Long-term follow-up of memory in patients with epilepsy
- Chapter 6 Memory in children with epilepsy
- Part 3 Ictal and interictal memory phenomena
- Chapter 7 <i>Déjà</i> experiences in epilepsy: contributions from memory research
- Chapter 8 The syndrome of transient epileptic amnesia
- Chapter 9 Effects of epileptiform EEG discharges on cognitive function
- Part 4 Assessment
- Chapter 10 Neuropsychological assessment of memory in patients with epilepsy
- Chapter 11 Memory assessment in intracarotid anaesthetic procedures: history and current status
- Chapter 12 Epilepsy and the study of spatial memory using virtual reality
- Part 5 Remote memory and psychiatric disorders
- Chapter 13 Remote memory and temporal lobe epilepsy
- Chapter 14 Electroconvulsive therapy for depression and autobiographical memory
- Chapter 15 Psychiatric aspects of memory disorders in epilepsy
- Part 6 Imaging and event-related potentials (ERPs)
- Chapter 16 Structural imaging and neuropathological correlates of memory in epilepsy
- Chapter 17 Functional imaging of memory in epilepsy
- Chapter 18 Electrophysiological studies of memory in epilepsy
- Part 7 Intracranial stimulation and recording
- Chapter 19 Memory and epilepsy in nonhuman animals
- Chapter 20 Hippocampal electrical stimulation and localisation of long-term episodic memory
- Chapter 21 Interrelationships between epilepsy, sleep, and memory
- Chapter 22 Mapping memories in the medial temporal lobe: contributions from single-neuron recordings in patients with epilepsy
- Part 8 Management and outcome
- Chapter 23 Anticonvulsants and memory
- Chapter 24 Effects of amygdalohippocampectomy versus corticoamygdalohippocampectomy on memory and nonmemory cognitive functions
- Chapter 25 Memory rehabilitation for people with epilepsy
- Author index
- Subject index