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The Hippocampal Contribution to Verbal Fluency in Patients with Temporal Lobe Epilepsy
| Content Provider | Semantic Scholar |
|---|---|
| Author | Gleissner, Ulrike Elger, Christian Erich |
| Copyright Year | 2001 |
| Abstract | We report the effects of hippocampal and non-hippocampal temporal-lobe dysfunction on verbal fluency performance. Quantitative aspects of semantic and phonemic fluency performance were examined in 46 patients with right- or left-temporal-lobe epilepsy and 20 healthy controls. A pattern of fewer words generated on semantic rather than phonemic fluency tasks was found among patients with damage to hippocampal structures. This pattern was not obtained in patients with non-hippocampal temporal-lobe damage, suggesting that the hippocampus plays a crucial role in semantic fluency performance. An interesting lateralization effect was obtained. Among patients with left temporal-lobe involvement, fluency performance was impaired regardless of whether the hippocampus was involved. In contrast, among patients with right temporal-lobe involvement, fluency performance was impaired only when the hippocampus was involved. |
| Starting Page | 55 |
| Ending Page | 63 |
| Page Count | 9 |
| File Format | PDF HTM / HTML |
| DOI | 10.1016/S0010-9452(08)70557-4 |
| PubMed reference number | 11292161 |
| Journal | Medline |
| Volume Number | 37 |
| Alternate Webpage(s) | https://api.elsevier.com/content/article/pii/S0010945208705574 |
| Alternate Webpage(s) | https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0010945208705574?dgcid=api_sd_search-api-endpoint |
| Alternate Webpage(s) | https://doi.org/10.1016/S0010-9452%2808%2970557-4 |
| Journal | Cortex |
| Language | English |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Content Type | Text |
| Resource Type | Article |
