• DOI:10.1007/s10072-006-0614-y
Corpus ID: 7741607

Severe amnesia following bilateral medial temporal lobe damage occurring on two distinct occasions

@article{Gennaro2006SevereAF,
  title={Severe amnesia following bilateral medial temporal lobe damage occurring on two distinct occasions},
  author={G. Gennaro and L. Grammaldo and P. Quarato and V. Esposito and A. Mascia and A. Sparano and G. Meldolesi and A. Picardi},
  journal={Neurological Sciences},
  year={2006},
  volume={27},
  pages={129-133}
}

• G. Gennaro, L. Grammaldo, +5 authors A. Picardi
• Published 2006
• Medicine
• Neurological Sciences

A comprehensive neuropsychological assessment was performed on a 38-year-old woman with drug-resistant right temporal lobe epilepsy before temporal lobectomy, during a 2-year follow-up period, and approximately 3 years after surgery when she developed a malignant glioma in the left medial temporal lobe (MTL). Both before and after epilepsy surgery, memory function was normal. When the tumour was discovered, the patient suffered from severe retrograde and anterograde amnesia, whereas working… Expand

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