creators_name: Beardsworth, Elizabeth D.
creators_name: Zaidel, Dahlia w.
editors_name: Costa, Louis
editors_name: Rourke, Bryon
type: journalp
datestamp: 2000-08-16
lastmod: 2011-03-11 08:54:23
metadata_visibility: show
title: Memory for faces in epileptic children before and after brain surgery
ispublished: pub
subjects: dev-psy
subjects: neuro-neu
subjects: neuro-psy
full_text_status: public
keywords: short term memory, epilepsy, temporal lobe epilepsy, temporal lobectomy, unilateral, left hemisphere, right hemisphere, hemispheric specialization, clinical, plasticity, functional reorganization, age, sex, delay, child neuropsychology, tests, recovery, medial temporal lobe, mesial, hippocampus.
abstract: Memory for pairs of unfamiliar children's faces was investigated in 29 children and adolescents suffering from left (LTLE) or right (RTLE) temporal-lobe epilepsy, before and after temporal-lobe surgery. Both immediate and delayed memory were tested. Before surgery,  RTLE subjects performed worse than either LTLE subjects or normal children. After surgery, RTLE subjects improved significantly.  Overall (after surgery), there was no significant LTLE-RTLE difference, but on delayed memory, the RTLE group was worse than the LTLE group. The results suggest specialization for facial memory in the right hemisphere of young patients, as in adults, despite early brain damage. 
date: 1994
date_type: published
publication: Journal of Clinical and Eperimental Neuropsychology
volume: 16
number: 4
publisher: Swets&Zeitlinger
pagerange: 589-596
refereed: TRUE
citation:   Beardsworth, Elizabeth D. and Zaidel, Dahlia w.  (1994) Memory for faces in epileptic children before and after brain surgery.  [Journal (Paginated)]     
document_url: http://cogprints.org/938/3/elizpdf.pdf