- 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
Remote memory and temporal lobe epilepsy
Remote memory and temporal lobe epilepsy
- Chapter:
- (p.227) Chapter 13 Remote memory and temporal lobe epilepsy
- Source:
- Epilepsy and Memory
- Author(s):
Mary Pat McAndrews
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
Research over the past decade has firmly established that the ability to retrieve remote information, particularly personally experienced autobiographical memories, is impaired in patients with temporal lobe epilepsy or excisions (TLE). Despite a long-held model of memory consolidation that suggested only recent memories would be impacted by medial temporal damage, clinical neuropsychologists working with TLE patients are readily impressed by their assertions of poor recollection of personal events such as family vacations; even when prompted by descriptions and reminders they report that it simply doesn't ‘feel’ like a lived experience. This type of memory has been found to be particularly sensitive to disruption in patients with TLE and, based on lesion and functional imaging data, it is hypothesized that it reflects damage to the medial temporal lobe (MTL) and most prominently the hippocampus, which serves as a critical ‘hub’ of a network that supports autobiographical recall. This chapter presents evidence in support of that hypothesis, and discusses questions regarding retrieval of semantic versus experiential remote memory, specification of the processes compromised in MTL damage that gives rise to autobiographical memory deficits, and the relationship between damage and patterns of functional activation in autobiographical memory networks of healthy individuals and patients with TLE.
Keywords: remote information retrieval, autobiographical memories, memory impairment, medial temporal lobe damage, hippocampus
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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