Epilepsy and Memory
Adam Zeman, Narinder Kapur, and Marilyn Jones-Gotman
Abstract
Epilepsy is one of the most common disorders of the brain, and these patients often suffer from memory problems. There are a number of reasons for this: seizures can directly affect the brain in ways that disturb memory; epilepsy often results from trouble in brain regions closely linked to memory; the treatment of epilepsy can affect memory; epilepsy can cause psychological problems, like depression, which interfere with memory. This book reviews all aspects of the relationship between this common and potentially serious neurological disorder and memory, one of the core functions of the human ... More
Epilepsy is one of the most common disorders of the brain, and these patients often suffer from memory problems. There are a number of reasons for this: seizures can directly affect the brain in ways that disturb memory; epilepsy often results from trouble in brain regions closely linked to memory; the treatment of epilepsy can affect memory; epilepsy can cause psychological problems, like depression, which interfere with memory. This book reviews all aspects of the relationship between this common and potentially serious neurological disorder and memory, one of the core functions of the human mind. The chapters review the history of the subject; the clinical features of memory disorder in epilepsy; neuropsychological, neuroradiological, neuropathological, and electrophysiological findings; the roles of anticonvulsant side effects and psychiatric disorder; and the scope for memory support and rehabilitation. The study of patients with epilepsy has revealed much about the workings of memory, yet there has been no recent review of this field of research. This book aims to this gap.
Keywords:
epilepsy,
memory problems,
seizures,
brain disorders,
anticonvulsant side effects,
psychiatric disorder,
rehabilitation
Bibliographic Information
| Print publication date: 2012 |
Print ISBN-13: 9780199580286 |
| Published to Oxford Scholarship Online: September 2012 |
DOI:10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199580286.001.0001 |
Authors
Affiliations are at time of print publication.
Adam Zeman, editor
Professor of Cognitive and Behavioural Neurology, Peninsula Medical School, University of Exeter, UK
Narinder Kapur, editor
Visiting Professor of Neuropsychology, University College London, UK
Marilyn Jones-Gotman, editor
Professor, Department of Neurology and Neurosurgery, McGill Universityk, Canada
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