The Possibility of Eidetic Memory in a Patient Report of Epileptogenic Zone in Right Temporo-Parietal-Occipital Cortex.

Brent M Berry, Laura R Miller, Meaghan Berns, Michal Kucewicz

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Article in Life (Basel, Switzerland), 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Not yet cited in PubMed.

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4 authors at 4 institutions in 2 countries.

Brent M BerryUniversity of Minnesota Medical School, 420 Delaware St SE, Minneapolis, MN 55455, USA.

Laura R MillerMayo Clinic, Department of Neurology, Department of Sleep Medicine, Department of Physiology & Biomedical Engineering, 200 First St. SW, Rochester, MN 55905, USA.

Meaghan BernsUniversity of Minnesota Medical School, 420 Delaware St SE, Minneapolis, MN 55455, USA.

Michal KucewiczMayo Clinic, Department of Neurology, Department of Sleep Medicine, Department of Physiology & Biomedical Engineering, 200 First St. SW, Rochester, MN 55905, USA.

Gdańsk University of Technology · PLMayo Clinic · USMinneapolis VA Medical Center · USUniversity of Minnesota Medical Center · US

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Abstract

Eidetic memory has been reported in children and in patients with synesthesia but is otherwise thought to be a rare phenomenon. Presented herein is a patient with right-sided language dominance, as proven via multiple functional imaging and neuropsychometric methods, who has a seizure onset zone in the right temporo-parietal-occipital cortex. This patient's medically refractory epilepsy and thus hyperactive cortex could possibly contribute to near eidetic ability with paired-associates learning tasks (in both short-term and long-term retention). There are reports of epilepsy negatively affecting memory, but as far as the authors are aware to date, there is limited evidence of any lesion enhancing cognitive functions (whether through direct lesion or via compensatory mechanism) that would be localized to a seizure onset zone in the dominant temporo-parietal-occipital junction.

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angular gyrusdominant temporo-parietal-occipital junctioneideticpair associative memorypsychometricsrefractory epilepsy

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PMID37109485

DOI10.3390/life13040956

PMCPMC10145536

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