TY - JOUR
T1 - Are frontal and temporal lobe epilepsy dissociable in their memory functioning?
AU - Kibby, Michelle Y.
AU - Cohen, Morris J.
AU - Stanford, Lisa
AU - Park, Yong D.
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2019 Elsevier Inc.
PY - 2019/10
Y1 - 2019/10
N2 - There is controversy in the literature as to how dissociable frontal lobe epilepsy (FLE) and temporal lobe epilepsy (TLE) are in terms of memory deficits. Some researchers have demonstrated that FLE is associated with greater executive dysfunction including working memory, whereas TLE is associated with greater memory impairment. Others have found the two groups to be comparable in memory functioning. Hence, we examined this question in children with FLE and TLE versus typically developing controls. We found most of the expected effects when the groups with focal onset epilepsy were compared to controls. Specifically, children with left TLE performed worse on verbal short-term memory/learning and long-term memory measures. In contrast, children with right TLE exhibited a more global pattern of difficulty on short-term memory/learning measures but performed worse than controls on long-term memory for faces. Children with FLE performed worse than controls on verbal working memory. Nevertheless, laterality effects were mild, as children with right and left TLE did not differ significantly from each other. Further, children with FLE did not differ from those with TLE on most measures except delayed facial recognition, where children with right TLE performed worse. In addition, attention problems and poor behavioral regulation were related to encoding problems in both the total epilepsy sample and in children with TLE specifically. Hence, our findings overall are consistent with prior studies indicating that children with TLE and FLE are commensurate in most aspects of memory impairment when compared to each other, likely related to rapid propagation between the frontal and temporal lobes, as would be expected with an excitatory lesion.
AB - There is controversy in the literature as to how dissociable frontal lobe epilepsy (FLE) and temporal lobe epilepsy (TLE) are in terms of memory deficits. Some researchers have demonstrated that FLE is associated with greater executive dysfunction including working memory, whereas TLE is associated with greater memory impairment. Others have found the two groups to be comparable in memory functioning. Hence, we examined this question in children with FLE and TLE versus typically developing controls. We found most of the expected effects when the groups with focal onset epilepsy were compared to controls. Specifically, children with left TLE performed worse on verbal short-term memory/learning and long-term memory measures. In contrast, children with right TLE exhibited a more global pattern of difficulty on short-term memory/learning measures but performed worse than controls on long-term memory for faces. Children with FLE performed worse than controls on verbal working memory. Nevertheless, laterality effects were mild, as children with right and left TLE did not differ significantly from each other. Further, children with FLE did not differ from those with TLE on most measures except delayed facial recognition, where children with right TLE performed worse. In addition, attention problems and poor behavioral regulation were related to encoding problems in both the total epilepsy sample and in children with TLE specifically. Hence, our findings overall are consistent with prior studies indicating that children with TLE and FLE are commensurate in most aspects of memory impairment when compared to each other, likely related to rapid propagation between the frontal and temporal lobes, as would be expected with an excitatory lesion.
KW - Children
KW - Children's Memory Scale
KW - Frontal lobe epilepsy
KW - Learning and memory
KW - Temporal lobe epilepsy
KW - Working memory
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U2 - 10.1016/j.yebeh.2019.106487
DO - 10.1016/j.yebeh.2019.106487
M3 - Article
C2 - 31476730
AN - SCOPUS:85071592095
SN - 1525-5050
VL - 99
JO - Epilepsy and Behavior
JF - Epilepsy and Behavior
M1 - 106487
ER -