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      Short-term cognitive changes after unilateral temporal lobectomy or unilateral amygdalo-hippocampectomy for the relief of temporal lobe epilepsy.

      Journal of Neurology, Neurosurgery, and Psychiatry
      Adult, Amygdala, physiopathology, surgery, Brain Damage, Chronic, diagnosis, Cognition Disorders, Dominance, Cerebral, physiology, Epilepsy, Temporal Lobe, Female, Hippocampus, Humans, Intelligence, Male, Mental Recall, Neuropsychological Tests, Orientation, Postoperative Complications, Psychomotor Performance, Psychosurgery, Temporal Lobe

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          Forty two patients who had unilateral temporal lobe surgery (either temporal lobectomy or amygdalo-hippocampectomy) were evaluated using a selection of cognitive tests before and soon after surgery, to examine whether the amygdalo-hippocampectomy produces less cognitive impairment than the standard en bloc resection. On specific indices of cognitive functioning an amygdalo-hippocampectomy rather than a temporal lobectomy, undertaken on the temporal lobe thought to mediate that particular function, produced less impairment, in terms of change in cognitive function resulting from the operation. An amygdalo-hippocampectomy carried out on the temporal lobe not thought to mediate such skills, however, resulted in less improvement or more deterioration in these functions than a temporal lobectomy, except in the case of delayed prose recall, where a right amygdalo-hippocampectomy led to more improvement than a right temporal lobectomy. Overall there were few scores which distinguished between the different surgical procedures for cognitive outcome.

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