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ArticleBrain and behavior2020

Verbal emotional memory laterality effect on amygdalohippocampectomy for refractory epilepsy.

Fernando Carvajal, Ainara Calahorra-Romillo, Sandra Rubio, Pilar Martín

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Article in Brain and behavior, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 4 papers.

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Fernando CarvajalBiological and Health Psychology Department, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Madrid, Spain.ORCID 0000-0003-0726-4298
Ainara Calahorra-RomilloBiological and Health Psychology Department, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Madrid, Spain.ORCID 0000-0003-4721-4543
Sandra RubioBiological and Health Psychology Department, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Madrid, Spain.ORCID 0000-0003-3157-6814
Pilar MartínBiological and Health Psychology Department, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Madrid, Spain.ORCID 0000-0003-2985-2234
Universidad Autónoma de Madrid · ES

Funding

Ministerio de Ciencia, Innovación y Universidades PGC2018-095934-B-100
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

objectivesTo study the brain lateralization of the verbal emotional memory and the influence of the emotional valence, we investigated a sample composed of patients with medial temporal lobe refractory epilepsy (MTLE) treated with unilateral amygdalohippocampectomy compared to a control group. MATERIALS &

methodsA new task (Verbal Association) was designed and implemented to assess emotional memory performance. It was applied to 62 patients with MTLE of whom 31 have been subjected to right amygdalohippocampectomy and 31 to left amygdalohippocampectomy. These patients were compared with 31 participants with no cerebral pathology, as a control group.

results(a) The control group obtained a higher number of recalled words than the rest of the groups, while the MTLE-right group obtained better results than the MTLE-left group. (b) In the case of positive emotional valence words, the MTLE-left group performed significantly worse than the rest of the groups; whereas for negative emotional words, the MTLE-left group presented the lowest average performance and the control group obtained a higher number of recalled words compared to MTLE-right group. In the case of neutral emotional words, no significant differences were found among the groups. (c) The MTLE-left group showed poorer performance on positive and negative words than neutral; the control group demonstrated lower average performance on positive and neutral words compared to negative; the MTLE-right group did not show any significant differences on the recall of different emotional valences.

conclusionsPatients with MTLE show a deficit in the verbal recall which is exacerbated for information with an affective component. This deficit is more prominent in the case of patients with left unilateral resection (MTLE-left group) since they lose the benefits of the emotional information for the recall.

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Drug Resistant EpilepsyEpilepsy, Temporal LobeFunctional LateralityHippocampusHumansMemoryMemory DisordersNeuropsychological Testsamygdalohippocampectomyemotionepilepsyepisodic memorymemoryneurosurgeryverbal emotional memory

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PMID33016003
PMCPMC7749565
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