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ArticlePloS one2021

Facial memory ability and self-awareness in patients with temporal lobe epilepsy after anterior temporal lobectomy.

Hiroaki Hosokawa, Shigenori Kanno, Yoshiyuki Nishio, Iori Kawasaki, Kazumi Hirayama, Atsuko Sunaga, Naotake Shoji, Masaki Iwasaki, Nobukazu Nakasato, Teiji Tominaga and 1 more

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Article in PloS one, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

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Hiroaki HosokawaDepartment of Behavioral Neurology and Cognitive Neuroscience, Tohoku University Graduate School of Medicine, Sendai, Japan.
Shigenori KannoDepartment of Behavioral Neurology and Cognitive Neuroscience, Tohoku University Graduate School of Medicine, Sendai, Japan.ORCID 0000-0003-4140-0919
Yoshiyuki NishioDepartment of Psychiatry and Neurology, Tokyo Metropolitan Matsuzawa Hospital, Setagaya, Japan.
Iori KawasakiDepartment of Rehabilitation, Sendai-Nishitaga National Hospital, Sendai, Japan.
Kazumi HirayamaDepartment of Occupational Therapy, Yamagata Prefectural University of Health Sciences, Yamagata, Japan.
Atsuko SunagaDepartment of Psychiatry, National Center Hospital, National Center of Neurology and Psychiatry, Kodaira, Japan.
Naotake ShojiDepartment of Neurosurgery, National Center Hospital, National Center of Neurology and Psychiatry, Kodaira, Japan.
Masaki IwasakiDepartment of Neurosurgery, National Center Hospital, National Center of Neurology and Psychiatry, Kodaira, Japan.
Nobukazu NakasatoDepartment of Epileptology, Tohoku University Graduate School of Medicine, Sendai, Japan.
Teiji TominagaDepartment of Neurosurgery, Tohoku University Graduate School of Medicine, Sendai, Japan.
Kyoko SuzukiDepartment of Behavioral Neurology and Cognitive Neuroscience, Tohoku University Graduate School of Medicine, Sendai, Japan.ORCID 0000-0002-8380-1561
Tohoku University · JPNational Center of Neurology and Psychiatry · JPSendai Nishitaga National Hospital · JPTokyo Metropolitan Matsuzawa Hospital · JPYamagata Prefectural University of Health Sciences · JP

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Abstract

Anterior temporal lobectomy (ATL) is the most common surgical treatment for drug-resistant temporal lobe epilepsy (TLE). Right ATL has been reported to reduce facial memory ability in patients with TLE, as indicated by poor performance on the Warrington Recognition Memory Test for Faces (RMF), which is commonly used to evaluate visual memory in these patients. However, little is known about whether patients with TLE exhibit difficulties in identifying faces in daily life after ATL. The aim of this study was to investigate facial memory ability and self-awareness of face identification difficulties in patients with TLE after ATL. Sixteen patients with TLE after right ATL, 14 patients with TLE after left ATL, and 29 healthy controls were enrolled in this study. We developed the multiview face recognition test (MFRT), which comprises a learning phase (one or three frontal face images without external facial feature information) and a recognition phase (frontal, oblique, or noise-masked face images). Facial memory abilities were examined in all participants using the MFRT and RMF, and self-awareness of difficulties in face identification was evaluated using the 20-item prosopagnosia index (PI20), which has been widely used to assess developmental prosopagnosia. The MFRT performance in patients with TLE after ATL was significantly worse than that in healthy controls regardless of the resected side, whereas the RMF scores in patients with TLE were significantly worse than those in healthy controls only after right ATL. The MFRT performance in patients with TLE after both left and right ATL was more influenced by working memory load than that in healthy controls. The PI20 scores revealed that patients with TLE after left ATL were aware of their difficulties in identifying faces. These findings suggest that patients with TLE not only after right ATL but also after left ATL might have difficulties in face identification.

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AdultAnterior Temporal LobectomyCase-Control StudiesEpilepsy, Temporal LobeFacial RecognitionFemaleHumansMaleMemory DisordersNeuropsychological TestsPostoperative Complications

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