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Functional plasticity after left anterior temporal lobectomy: reconstitution and compensation of verbal memory functions.

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PURPOSE:This study investigated the functional plasticity of the brain to reconstitute and compensate for verbal memory functions after epilepsy surgery of left temporocortical and temporomesial structures. We hypothesized that memory outcome would be best when surgery is performed within the period of cerebral plasticity, and that the outcome should be worst when fluid intelligence starts to decrease with physiologic aging. We also raised the question of different plasticity and compensation mechanisms for temporomesial and temporocortical memory functions. METHODS:We evaluated preoperative and 1-year-postoperative memory data and other verbal functions in 104 patients with epilepsy, who underwent a standard left anterior temporal lobe resection. We used memory measures that had been previously shown to be most selective for mesial and lateral functions, respectively. Determinants of postoperative memory outcome were evaluated by multiple regression analysis. Group statistics were calculated on the basis of the periods that are usually assumed to be significant for plasticity and behavioral compensation. Individual postoperative changes in memory functions were evaluated on the basis of test-retest data obtained in a group of 100 nonsurgical patients with localization-related epilepsies (mean retest interval >12 months). RESULTS:Only changes in cortically represented learning and data acquisition were related to age, plasticity, and capacities for behavioral compensation. No patient in the youngest group (younger than 15 years), 33% of patients who had surgery between the ages of 15 and 30 years, and 61% of the patients undergoing surgery older than age 30 years had significant deterioration in verbal learning. In contrast, postoperative changes in temporomesial consolidation/retrieval processes were independent of age at the time of surgery, plasticity, and capacities for behavioral compensation. CONCLUSIONS:Our data indicate different time windows for the reconstitution and compensation of mesial and cortical aspects of memory. Whereas the reconstitution of and compensation for cortical functions appear restricted by decreasing plasticity and physiological aging, mesial functions seem to be reconstituted by contralateral mesial structures over a much longer period. Concerning drug-resistant localization-related epilepsies, our results justify early consideration of surgery, especially when cortical structures are affected.

journal_name

Epilepsia

journal_title

Epilepsia

authors

Helmstaedter C,Elger CE

doi

10.1111/j.1528-1157.1998.tb01392.x

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Has Abstract

pub_date

1998-04-01 00:00:00

pages

399-406

issue

eissn

0013-9580

issn

1528-1167

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Functional plasticity after left anterior temporal lobectomy: reconstitution and compensation of verbal memory functions.