Functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) was used to study memory - associated activation
of medial temporal lobe (MTL) regions in 32 nondemented elderly individuals with mild cognitive impairment
Dr. Murray's laboratory has pioneered the use of MRI - guided stereotaxic surgery, a method that has for the first time allowed examination of the selective mnemonic contributions of various
medial temporal lobe structures.
Even though the operation had the potential to relieve the seizures she had been experiencing for nearly 15 years by eradicating a lesion on her
right medial temporal lobe, Vandyke said she was «ready to not have it.»
It is a minimally invasive procedure that is proving to be a very effective treatment for people
with medial temporal lobe epilepsy (MTLE), a common form of drug - resistant epilepsy.
There was moderate evidence that fMRI of verbal memory or language encoding should be considered for predicting verbal memory outcome for people who are being evaluated for
left medial temporal lobe surgery.
The guideline found weak evidence that fMRI may be a possible alternative for the Wada test to evaluate the language functions in the brain for people with
medial temporal lobe epilepsy, temporal epilepsy in general or extratemporal epilepsy.
Brain scans of the six dementia patients
showed medial temporal lobe atrophy, including a part of the brain called the amygdala, had moderate to severe atrophy.
Her work has demonstrated that, for some types of memory, the entorhinal and perirhinal cortical regions in the
ventral medial temporal lobe play a more important role than does the hippocampus.
Namely, they investigated language and cognition control areas in the frontal regions of the brain, and
medial temporal lobe structures that are important for memory and are brain areas known to atrophy in MCI and AD patients.
In the operation, the source of Vandyke's seizures — a lesion on her
right medial temporal lobe — was destroyed with heat generated by light from a thin laser - tipped probe inserted into her brain through a tiny hole in her skull while the surgeon viewed real - time MRI images of the process.
Their new paper, «Single - Cell Responses to Face Adaptation in the
Human Medial Temporal Lobe», has now been published in Neuron.
Fear, an emotion we have inherited from our ancestors, is not an abstract or intangible sense of imminent danger: it is expressed in neurochemical terms in our amygdala, the almond - shaped structure on
the medial temporal lobe, anterior to the hippocampus.
Using statistical methods, Quiroga and his colleagues calculate that about 0.1 percent of the neurons in
the medial temporal lobe (about 1 million) respond to any given image.
For the past eight years, he and his colleagues have been studying epilepsy patients who have had electrodes implanted in a region of their brains called
the medial temporal lobe, as part of a study to identify the source of their seizures.
Injuries to various parts of the frontal lobe can leave some people unable to talk or can alter personality, yielding impulsive or antisocial behaviors, and lesions to
the medial temporal lobe can erase our memories or prevent new ones from forming.
«Our results suggest that aerobic exercise may have a positive effect on
the medial temporal lobe memory system (which includes the entorhinal cortex) in healthy young adults.
The task activated a large network of brain regions, including the hippocampus and amygdala, two structures in
the medial temporal lobe that are known to be involved in memory formation and emotion, respectively.
The case showed that
the medial temporal lobes (MTL), which include the hippocampus, are crucial for making new memories.
The hippocampus is a structure near the base of the brain in a region called
the medial temporal lobe.
She strongly suspects these later patches may communicate with
the medial temporal lobe, a region where, in 2005, Christof Koch of the California Institute of Technology discovered neurons that responded exclusively to specific individuals, such as actor Halle Berry.
The wires enabled the researchers to monitor the electrical activity of individual nerve cells in
the medial temporal lobe and to detect neurons that would respond more to the perception of one person than to that of another.
He operated on Molaison in 1953, using a suction device to excise a three - inch segment of
the medial temporal lobe on both sides.
Depending on the person, particular cells in
the medial temporal lobe — an area critical to forming long - term memories — get fired up only by, for example, images of
Each person had a high - resolution MRI scan, which provides a detailed look at
the medial temporal lobe, or MTL, a brain region involved in the formation of new memories.
Consider the «Bill Clinton cells» that neuroscientists have found in the brain's
medial temporal lobe.
The top young participants primarily used
their medial temporal lobes, which are employed to encode and think about new information.
«We focused on the electrical activities of individual neurons in
the medial temporal lobe, a set of brain regions that serve as a bridge between visual recognition and memories,» said Dr. Nir.
A key sign of early Alzheimer's disease is the loss of brain tissue in a region of the brain, known as
the medial temporal lobe.
We did, however, observe an improvement in performance when
the medial temporal lobe in persons with epilepsy was stimulated and regardless of baseline memory performance, a finding that suggests that improvement could occur in patients with other memory impairments (e.g., Alzheimer's disease).
Brenda Milner studied the effects of brain damage, in particular on a region known as
the medial temporal lobe, and its effects on memory.
She showed that
the medial temporal lobe amnestic syndrome is characterised by an inability to acquire new memories and an inability to recall established memories from a few years immediately before damage, while memories from the more remote past and other cognitive abilities, including language, perception and reasoning were intact.
The team found that babies with the version of the gene linked to an increased risk of Alzheimer's were more likely to have smaller
medial temporal lobes.
These differences appear in a region called
the medial temporal lobe.
Using a combination of magnetic resonance imaging and an advanced segmentation approach, researchers evaluated the differences in the volumes of subfields of the hippocampus, the seahorse - shaped region in the brain's
medial temporal lobe.
The first of these two research programs involves the independent mnemonic contributions of the different
medial temporal lobes structures, the extent to which different medial temporal lobe structures must interact in storing information and their interaction with the prefrontal cortex.
Newborns with a certain version of a gene are more likely to have a smaller
medial temporal lobe (blue spots).
Goldstein and her colleagues found that patients diagnosed with â $ œamnesticâ $ MCI showed greater loss of white matter integrity in a certain part of the brain —
the medial temporal lobe â $ «than cognitively normal controls of similar age.