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Anteromesial Temporal Lobectomy for Medically Intractable Temporal Lobe Epilepsy: An Operative Study
Published on: August 15, 2025
Accelerated long-term forgetting in temporal lobe epilepsy: evidence of improvement after left temporal pole
Roberto Gallassi1, Luisa Sambati, Roberto Poda
1Department of Neurological Sciences, University of Bologna, Bologna, Italy. roberto.gallassi@unibo.it
Abstract:
Accelerated long term forgetting (ALF) is a characteristic cognitive aspect in patients affected by temporal lobe epilepsy that is probably due to an impairment of memory consolidation and retrieval caused by epileptic activity in hippocampal and parahippocampal regions. We describe a case of a patient with TLE who showed improvement in ALF and in remote memory impairment after an anterior left temporal pole lobectomy including the uncus and amygdala. Our findings confirm that impairment of hippocampal functioning leads to pathological ALF, whereas restoration of hippocampal functioning brings ALF to a level comparable to that of controls.
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