Sentences with phrase «temporal lobe»

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.

Affecting the left temporal lobe of the brain, dyslexia is a lifelong condition making written and oral language difficult.

Perez EL, Lauritzen F, Wang Y, Lee TS, Kang D, Zaveri HP, Chaudhry FA, Ottersen OP, Bergersen LH, Eid T (2012) Evidence for astrocytes as a potential source of the glutamate excess in temporal lobe epilepsy Neurobiol Dis, 47 (3), 331 - 7 PubMed 22659305

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.

«About one - third of patients with temporal lobe epilepsy do not respond to medications.

Dyslexia is a lifelong condition characterized by difficulty reading due to problems with speech identification and written and oral language, which affects the left temporal lobe of the brain.

The first thing I was finding was that some patients with visual - perception deficits had lesions of the right temporal lobe in the right hemisphere, which is the nondominant hemisphere for speech.

The researchers found evidence for a «voice area» in the auditory cortex of these macaques: a discrete region of the anterior temporal lobe in which activity was greater for macaque vocalizations than for other sound categories.

Eid T, Thomas MJ, Spencer DD, Runden - Pran E, Lai JC, Malthankar GV, Kim JH, Danbolt NC, Ottersen OP, de Lanerolle NC (2004) Loss of glutamine synthetase in the human epileptogenic hippocampus: possible mechanism for raised extracellular glutamate in mesial temporal lobe epilepsy.

Neuroscientists then double - checked their results on a patient with an injury in the specific region of the posterior superior temporal lobe used to distinguish between BA and DA.

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.

While projecting the faces one at a time onto a screen in front of two macaque monkeys, the team recorded the activity in single neurons in parts of the monkey's temporal lobe known to respond specifically to faces.

Due to its relatively high prevalence, the disabling nature of temporal lobe seizures, and the difficulty of treating with drugs, there has been much research study on this type of epilepsy, particularly over the past 20 years.

Tessler S, Danbolt NC, Faull RL, Storm - Mathisen J, Emson PC (1999) Expression of the glutamate transporters in human temporal lobe epilepsy Neuroscience, 88 (4), 1083 - 91 PubMed 10336123

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.

He examined Sadie McMullen in the Erie County Jail and determined very quickly that she was suffering from a form of epilepsy, that she had actually been diagnosed with in Chicago at the age of five called Temporal Lobe Epilepsy or TLE,» Saglian described.

Partial epilepsy accounts for approximately 60 % of all epileptic patients, with Mesial Temporal Lobe Epilepsy being the most common form.

She had laser ablation surgery for temporal lobe epilepsy in 2012, which drastically reduced her seizures and relieved her epilepsy - associated depression.

I came to the retreat to detoxify my body since I have had a nine month course of chemotherapy after having a Glioblastoma Multiforme removed from my right temporal lobe on November 19, 2007.

Christopher Moulin, O'Connor's adviser at the University of Leeds, has been studying four patients with damaged temporal lobes who suffer from chronic déjà vu.

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.

Lateralization of the startle reflex circuit in humans: An examination with monaural probes following unilateral temporal lobe resection

This was followed by three minute scalp recordings of temporal lobe brain electrical activity, obtained as part of a standard baseline brain assessment using High - resolution, relational, resonance - based electroencephalic mirroring (HIRREM).

But, as with many disorders that are intrinsic to the brain, no drugs are available to prevent temporal lobe epilepsy or slow its progression.

Chunky Temporal Lobe Tomato Salsa This tomato Ssalsa recipe is by my friend Kelcie Yeo.

A set of fMRI recordings of subjects» temporal lobes backed up the team's hypothesis: each time a house or face was consciously processed by an individual, the resulting patterns in brain activity were similar.

Results showed that, among study participants with asymmetry in temporal lobe high frequency electrical activity, those with right compared to left side asymmetry had higher resting heart rates and other changes suggesting that the cardiovascular system may be less capable of adapting to shifting circumstances.

Thanks to our limbic system and its surrounding temporal lobes, instead of intellectual neutrality there is commitment.

The researchers examined total cerebral volume, frontal lobe volume, temporal lobe volume, hippocampal volume and white matter hyper - intensity volume in patients without prior stroke or dementia.

«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.

Although its exact role is controversial, the UF tract is believed to allow temporal lobe - based memory associations to modify behavior though interactions with another area of the brain.

I'm in the operating room at University Hospital Zurich in Switzerland with neurologist Thomas Grunwald, who has diagnosed 22 - year - old Jeremy Künzler with drug - resistant temporal lobe epilepsy.

If conditions were right, says Newberg, these two things should be enough to produce the same temporal lobe activity to trigger an out - of - body experience.

«These regions in the right temporal lobe increase in activity the moment you establish a shared meaning for something, but not when you communicate a signal,» Stolk said.

«In fact we found no link between cell phone usage and temporal lobe tumors, nor was there any association between handedness and tumor location.»

Critically, the superior temporal gyrus of the right temporal lobe maintained a steady, baseline activity throughout the game but became more active when one player suddenly understood what the other player was trying to communicate.

Median time spent in the hospital was just one day — compared to a typical two to five - day stay after conventional temporal lobe surgery, and SLAH patients did not have to be admitted to the intensive care unit.

Test results showed that temporal lobes looked the same regardless of amyloid level, but the basal forebrain showed notable degeneration among those seemingly healthy adults with abnormal amyloid levels.

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.

There are much - discussed and somewhat disputed experiments in Australia, where a researcher named Allan Snyder is using TMS — transcranial magnetic stimulation — to try and damp down the left dominant temporal lobe.

This finding suggests that a common pathophysiology throughout the neural «language» loop that connects the frontal and posterior temporal lobe likely contributes to stuttering severity.

However, when a machine - learning algorithm was applied to all of the data, thus making a multivariate decoding of data possible, positive results were observed in the entire temporal lobe, and even beyond it.

Status epilepticus is often followed by a period of seizure - free recovery before people start to experience recurring temporal lobe seizures.

Retrospective studies of people with severe temporal lobe epilepsy reveal that many of them initially have an episode of prolonged seizures, known as status epilepticus.

«Scientists find potential epilepsy drug: New molecule prevents recurrent temporal lobe epilepsy in mice.»

Detection of aberrant hippocampal mossy fiber connections: Ex vivo mesoscale diffusion MRI and microtractography with histological validation in a patient with uncontrolled temporal lobe epilepsy

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.

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