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  • Cognitive Psychology
  • Epilepsy Research

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  • Emotional information impacts memory encoding and consolidation through the amygdala-hippocampal network.
  • Temporal lobe epilepsy (TLE) affects memory functions, but its specific impact on emotional memory is less understood.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To evaluate emotional perception and episodic memory for emotionally charged content in patients with medically resistant TLE.
  • To compare these abilities between patients with left TLE (LTLE) and right TLE (RTLE) and healthy controls.

Main Methods:

  • An audiovisual paradigm was used, involving emotional and neutral narrative stimuli presented via sequential picture slides.
  • Emotional arousal ratings were collected immediately after stimulus presentation.
  • Emotional memory was assessed one week later using a multiple-choice questionnaire and a visual recognition task.

Main Results:

  • Patients with TLE reported significantly higher arousal to emotional stimuli compared to neutral stimuli.
  • Overall memory recall from slides was significantly lower in TLE patients than in controls.
  • LTLE patients showed a trend towards lower scores on the questionnaire, while RTLE patients exhibited poorer visual recognition.

Conclusions:

  • Emotional memory is preserved in patients with right TLE, despite general memory deficits.
  • Emotional memory is impaired in patients with left TLE.
  • TLE affects emotional processing and memory, with lateralization influencing emotional memory outcomes.