We found a match
Your institution may have rights to this item. Sign in to continue.
- Title
WMSIII performance in epilepsy patients following temporal lobectomy.
- Authors
ROBERT C. DOSS; GORDON J. CHELUNE; RICHARD I. NAUGLE
- Abstract
We examined performances on the Wechsler Memory Scale3rd Edition (WMSIII) among patients who underwent temporal lobectomy for the control of medically intractable epilepsy. There were 51 right (RTL) and 56 left (LTL) temporal lobectomy patients. All patients were left hemisphere speech-dominant. The LTL and RTL patients were comparable in terms of general demographic, epilepsy, and intellectual/attention factors. Multivariate analyses revealed a significant crossover interaction (p < .001), with the RTL group scoring significantly lower on the visual than auditory indexes while the LTL group scored significantly lower on the auditory than visual memory indexes. Within-group pairwise analyses revealed statistically significant auditory versus visual index score comparisons (all p < .001) for both surgical groups. Discriminant analysis (p < .001) identified Verbal Paired Associates I, Faces I, and Family Pictures II to significantly discriminate RTL and LTL patients, with an overall correct classification rate of 81.3%. Our findings suggest that the WMSIII is sensitive to modality-specific memory performance associated with unilateral temporal lobectomy. (JINS, 2004, 10, 173179.)
- Subjects
PEOPLE with epilepsy; TEMPORAL lobectomy; TEMPORAL lobe surgery; MEMORY testing; EPILEPSY; WECHSLER Memory Scale
- Publication
Journal of the International Neuropsychological Society, 2004, Vol 10, Issue 2, p173
- ISSN
1355-6177
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1017/s1355617704102026